ABSTRACT

This book represents the product of a two-year research project and a four-year personal journey to explore the relationship between migration and economic development in the Caribbean area. Does Caribbean immigration to the United States assist or impede the economic development of the Caribbean? Would the curtailment of immigration affect the stability of the Caribbean? Can a certain mix of development strategies significantly reduce the pressures for migration? What can the United States and the Caribbean countries do separately and together to improve the prospects for economic development while permitting migration at manageable levels? This book begins with these questions and ends with some answers.

List of Tables -- Preface /Robert A. Pastor -- 1. Introduction: The Policy Challenge /Robert A. Pastor -- PART I: THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT ON MIGRATION -- PART II: THE IMPACT OF EMIGRATION ON DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES -- PART III: THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF MIGRATION ON DEVELOPMENT -- Part IV: MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT: cARIBBEAN POLICIES -- PART V: MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL AND U.S. OPTIONS -- PART VI: TOWARD A SYNTHESIS IN THEORY AND POLICY -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix A: List of Participants: The Conference on Migration and Development in the Caribbean at the Wye Center, Maryland, September 14-16, 1984 -- Appendix B: List of Participants: The Conference on Migration and Development in the Caribbean at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., January 23, 1985 -- Index.