So I know I'm real late to this party but I just found this piece of yours.
As a proud immigrant to Saba, an island that has a very high percentage of immigrants (~40% of the adult population, here defined as being born outside of the Dutch Caribbean) and also that did the whole, "hey, can we be a colony again?" thing, I found this history extremely interesting. Thank you for your work on it!
On openness to immigrants and also colonizers, maybe, the themes seen here with Haiti and DR reminded me a kind of similar findings Rasheed Griffith writes about, here:
So I know I'm real late to this party but I just found this piece of yours.
As a proud immigrant to Saba, an island that has a very high percentage of immigrants (~40% of the adult population, here defined as being born outside of the Dutch Caribbean) and also that did the whole, "hey, can we be a colony again?" thing, I found this history extremely interesting. Thank you for your work on it!
On openness to immigrants and also colonizers, maybe, the themes seen here with Haiti and DR reminded me a kind of similar findings Rasheed Griffith writes about, here:
https://cpsi.media/p/colonialism-and-progress-fb9
Thank you so much for the link. I read Griffith's piece and listened to his podcast with Nigel Biggar. Both very interesting and insightful.