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While there are over 500,000 people in Canada who claim Caribbean origins or descent, they do not automatically constitute a Caribbean 'community' or a Caribbean diaspora. The Caribbean diaspora in Canada, often confused with something called a "black diaspora," is smaller, more homogeneous in class terms, more racialized and more concentrated in certain neighborhoods. Because of the advantages that accrue to capital from having a pliable workforce that will eagerly accept low wages and less than ideal working conditions, it is important to have a diaspora to which capital can go in times of labor need; at the same time, given their powerlessness, the flexibility of such a workforce guarantees that such workers can be easily dismissed during economic downswings. In all of this "race," racism and racialization play a key role, and came to a head when community leaders and parents were successful in launching a black-focused school in Toronto. At the end of the day, however, the class affiliation of members of the diaspora is clearly distinct from that of the more economically successful and occupationally mobile CaribbeanCanadians, whose social class, educational and residential locations separate them from their diasporic countrymen and countrywomen.

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Foreword / Linden Lewis -- Introduction / Francio Guadeloupe and Yvon van der Pijl -- Stories of autonomy on non-sovereign Saba : flipping the script of postcolonial resistance / Nikki Mulder -- "Education must be more!" : imagining and (re)producing St. Martin/Sint Maarten belonging / Jordi Halfman -- People from outside : transnationalism and nationness on 21st century Curaçao / Guiselle Starink-Martha -- The Trinta di Mei labor revolt and its aftermath : anticipating a just and equitable Curaçaoan nation / Rose Mary Allen -- Some are more equal than others : human rights education at the University of Curaçao's School of Law / Lisenne Delgado -- Thinking, seeing, and doing like a kingdom : the making of Caribbean Netherlands statistics and the "native Bonairian" / Francisca Grommé -- After free markets and foundations : challenges to self-determination on St. Martin / Antonio Carmona Báez -- Sweet breakaway : where equality and liberty meet on Aruba / Gregory Richardson -- "We come out to free up" : movement, dance, and liberation in West Indian calypso / Charissa Granger -- "It's gonna be incredible" : lessons on being, becoming, and belonging from Statian youth / Nicole Sanches and Yvon van der Pijl -- Epilogue / Anton Allahar.

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, historical and media analysis, the study of popular culture, and autoethnographic accounts, the various contributions challenge conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty. While the book recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it opens a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life. Focusing on all six different islands and through a multitude of voices and stories, the volume engages with the everyday projects, ordinary imaginaries, and dreams of equaliberty alongside the work of independistas and traditional social movements aiming for more or full self-determination. As such, it offers a rich and powerful telling of the various ways of being in and belonging to our contemporary postcolonial world