Mini-ethnographies in Trinidad and Tobago
At the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus of Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost island in the Caribbean archipelago, in 2019 undergraduate students embarked on ethnographic journeys. Our topic this year was migration, which included mobility, and the mini-ethnographies covered: religiously-inflected intra-Caribbean migration, internal student migration, language use and learning a second language for Spanish-speaking migrants working in service sectors in Trinidad, women's marriage-led internal migration, rural to urban movements, imagining queer freedom through prospects for international migration, livelihoods of Caribbean migrants, family migration, crime-related and insecurity-led urban to urban migration, home to work commuting and daily traffic congestion, return migration, transnational economic networks As a snippet of life in contemporary T&T, we invite you to read some of the excerp...