Migration and Political Behavior is an account of the impact migration has on the political behavior of individual migrants both abroad and in their society of origin. It analyzes how migrants adapt to a political system that may be distinct and which may result in a distinct pattern of political behavior. It further analyzes lingering effects living in a different society may have on a migrants political behavior on returning to the society of origin. Migration and Political Behavior shows that sojourning alters dramatically the political involvement of a discrete group of ...

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as the United States, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. More so than other world regions, the Caribbean has been characterized as an always already colonial region. It has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres in the new world, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every...