%0 Journal Article
%T A Transnational World Fractured but Not Forgotten: British West Indian Migration to the Colombian Islands of San Andr¨¦s and Providence
%A Sharika Crawford
%J New West Indian Guide
%D 2011
%I Brill
%X This article examines British West Indian migration to the Colombian archipelago of San Andr¨¦s and Providence in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. While the United Fruit plantations, Panama Canal, oil fields in Venezuela, and railroad projects in Central America generated a strong demand for a large West Indian workforce, no such development took place on San Andr¨¦s and Providence. As a result, the profile of West Indian migration looks different than to the Spanish-speaking circum-Caribbean, with more professionals and merchants and fewer unskilled laborers. In the absence of mass migration, there was less hostility toward West Indian newcomers to San Andr¨¦s and Providence islands.
%K Colombia
%K British Caribbean
%K migrations
%K social history
%K social history
%K labour relations
%K international relations
%U http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/7878