The Illusion of Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Caribbean
This essay aims to analyze the aspirational universality of the terms “citizenship” and “sovereignty” by focusing on the nature of these terms in the Caribbean. This is accomplished through establishing the traditional definitions of sovereignty and citizenship before comparing the main tenets of th...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:267a39754cbd415ebd890eb22728c0de 2023-06-18T03:41:56+02:00 The Illusion of Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Caribbean Maria Bacchus 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.39941 https://doaj.org/article/267a39754cbd415ebd890eb22728c0de EN eng Caribbean Studies Students' Union https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cquilt/article/view/39941 https://doaj.org/toc/1925-5829 https://doaj.org/toc/1929-235X doi:10.33137/cq.v7i1.39941 1925-5829 1929-235X https://doaj.org/article/267a39754cbd415ebd890eb22728c0de Caribbean Quilt, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2023) Citizenship Dominican-Haitian Relations Sovereignty Foreign Intervention North Atlantic Universals History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Social Sciences H Education L article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.39941 2023-06-04T00:37:34Z This essay aims to analyze the aspirational universality of the terms “citizenship” and “sovereignty” by focusing on the nature of these terms in the Caribbean. This is accomplished through establishing the traditional definitions of sovereignty and citizenship before comparing the main tenets of these definitions with case studies from the Caribbean which challenge, contradict, or negate these traditional definitions. Specifically, this essay will discuss the promises of birthright citizenship entrenched in the constitution of the Dominican Republic in contrast with the statelessness and non-citizenship that those of Haitian descent experience in the Dominican Republic. Next, sovereignty is complicated when its traditional definition is compared to the Caribbean’s history of foreign intervention, specifically in Haiti and Jamaica. This results in the conclusion that sovereignty and citizenship are situation-specific constructs and illusionary in the Caribbean. The prevalence of these illusions is contextualized through building off the work of Yarimar Bonilla and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who grouped these terms as “North Atlantic Universals,” to reinforce the non-existence of citizenship and sovereignty, according to their traditional definitions, in the Caribbean. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Caribbean Quilt 7 1 30 34 |
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This essay aims to analyze the aspirational universality of the terms “citizenship” and “sovereignty” by focusing on the nature of these terms in the Caribbean. This is accomplished through establishing the traditional definitions of sovereignty and citizenship before comparing the main tenets of these definitions with case studies from the Caribbean which challenge, contradict, or negate these traditional definitions. Specifically, this essay will discuss the promises of birthright citizenship entrenched in the constitution of the Dominican Republic in contrast with the statelessness and non-citizenship that those of Haitian descent experience in the Dominican Republic. Next, sovereignty is complicated when its traditional definition is compared to the Caribbean’s history of foreign intervention, specifically in Haiti and Jamaica. This results in the conclusion that sovereignty and citizenship are situation-specific constructs and illusionary in the Caribbean. The prevalence of these illusions is contextualized through building off the work of Yarimar Bonilla and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who grouped these terms as “North Atlantic Universals,” to reinforce the non-existence of citizenship and sovereignty, according to their traditional definitions, in the Caribbean. |
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