Marginalized Groups in the Caribbean - by Ann Marie Bissessar & Cheryl-Ann Sarita Boodram & Daniele Bobb (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

This book highlights the discrimination of groups in the Caribbean, including women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, deportees, and flood victims. The three authors in this book are experts in separate disciplines: policy making, social work, as well as gender and development.

Review Quotes

This timely manuscript, focused on vulnerable populations in the CARICOM region, has much broader, international appeal. Multi-disciplinary in nature, the issue of marginalization is moving up political agendas across the globe and is now a topic worthy of both scholarly investigation and of greater relevance to policy makers and practitioners. I commend the editor and authors for this valuable and useful manuscript.

This welcome volume explores governmental policies in the English-speaking Caribbean with special attention to structural inequalities. The authors, all scholars from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, meticulously underscore how the needs of marginalized, vulnerable populations have been excluded in policy decisions. The volume is multidisciplinary in scope: Bissessar focuses on public policy, Boodram presents her findings from the perspective of social work, and Bobb looks at gender inequality. The three authors did not collaborate; each chapter is solely the work of its author. Individual chapters address problems of first peoples, deportees, women and children, and flood victims. All 11 chapters will prove extremely useful to researchers, service providers, and policy makers. Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

About the Author

Ann Marie Bissessar is professor at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus.
Cheryl-Ann Sarita Boodram is lecturer and practicum coordinator at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus.
Daniele Bobb is lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus.