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When speaking of decolonisation and post-colonialism, it is essential to avoid the generalising approach which sometimes leads to a distortion of the real. Decolonisation is generally seen as accession to sovereignty. For the elites and the populations of the French Overseas Dependencies it represents a reforming of the bond with France. It is a conversion of what was political subordination into dependence on social and economic resources. This conversion is a rational process based on the following idea: Independence would be costly compared to the advantages of dependence. In other words, Guadeloupe, Guyane and Martinique would be decolonized without becoming independent. Therefore, the transition from the status of colony to that of 'departement' is not a legal contrivance. Even if local populations did not choose their political status through the electoral process, they did vote for the parties which were in favour of French citizenship.

Introduction: "Plus ça change . . ." Continuity and Change in Caribbean New Political Culture (by Holger Henke and Fred Reno). Part 1. Economic and Political Choices, Citizenship, Sovereignty: 1. Dependency as a Strategy (by Fred Reno). 2. Responding to the Challenges of Poverty: Modern Political and Economic Culture in the Caribbean (by Anton L. Allahar). 3. The Evolving Contours of Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Contemporary Caribbean (by Jessica Byron). Part 2. New Political Moments and Spaces: 4. Nation Aroused and Open for Business? Jamaica circa the Early Twenty-First Century (by Annie Paul). 5. Cuba in the Post-Castro Era: A New Political Culture in the Making? (by Bert Hoffmann). 6. Political Uses of Racial Categories in the French Antilles (by Justin Daniel). 7. Sustainable Development for All Guyanese: The Imperatives of Governance Reform (by Fitzgerald Yaw). 8. Maiden and Meme: Media and a Young Politician in Suriname (By Hilde Neus). Part 3. Enduring Challenges to Nation Building: 9. Power Sharing, Nation Building and Social Justice Creation: Suriname's Political Culture (by Peter Meel) 10. Belize on the Frontlines of Globalization: Impacts on Political Culture (by Jeffrey Bosworth). 11. A State under Siege? Drug Trafficking and the Case of Jamaica (by A. Haughton).

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. .