The Caribbean nation-building project was conceived within a development discourse that sought to eliminate political boundaries that kept citizens apart. It has not fulfilled its potential…. Our editors, Danns, Griffith and Yaw have given us a text that serves as the manifesto for the mission.

Professor Hilary Beckles
Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies

…indispensable reading, integral to building engagement and charting a course towards a brighter and more inclusive future.

Riyad Insanally
Guyana Ambassador to the USA, Permanent Representative to the OAS

The Caribbean Diaspora is recognized as an untapped yet critical resource component in regional development. Described by the World Bank as “a sizeable, well-educated, and affluent demographic whose large majority is interested in investing in its countries of origin”, the Caribbean Diaspora has the potential to transform the Caribbean.

In Dynamics of Caribbean Diaspora Engagement, editors George K. Danns, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, and Fitzgerald Yaw bring together contributions from over 30 authors representing government and NGOs, private and public sector interests, diplomats, entrepreneurs, investors, consultants and academics from a range of disciplines. Building on The University of Guyana’s Diaspora Engagement conference held in 2017, this groundbreaking volume highlights the multidimensional points of diaspora engagement and commences the conversation towards a systematic and structured approach to harnessing all the Diaspora has to offer.

Divided into seven sections covering economics, culture, migration, politics and development, scholarly perspectives as well as the lived experiences of the Caribbean Diaspora are explored and analysed to determine the direction of diaspora engagement enhancement.