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An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world.

1. Introduction -- 2. 'Borderisation' versus 'Creolisation': A Caribbean game of identities and borders -- 3. Labouring on the Border of Inclusion/Exclusion: Undocumented CARICOM Migrants in the Barbadian Economy -- 4. Caribbean spaces of migration and transnational networks: The case of the Haitian Diaspora -- 5. Borders and the question of citizenship: The Case of the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- 6. The Seeds of Anger: Contemporary issues in forced migration across the Dominican-Haitian border -- 7. 'When dialogue is no longer possible, what still exists is the mystery of hope': migration and citizenship in the Dominican Republic in film, literature and performance -- 8. To Be or not to Be… Giddy – Walking the Language (Border) Line -- 9. Blurring the Borders of the Human: Hybridized Bodies in Literature and Folklore -- 10. Borderless Spaces and Alternative Subjectivities in Three Fictional Narratives by Diasporic Caribbean Women Writers -- 11. Reimagining the Nation: Gender and Bodily Transgression in Breath, Eyes, Memory. .