What Are The Causes Of Migration In The Caribbean Migration?

Few studies concern themselves with Caribbean migrants within the Caribbean region, instead focusing on migrations to developed countries such as the United States. There is very little research done on the study of Caribbean migration for this reason, but I will do my best. East Indians are habitually non-migratory. Agricultural lifestyle prevents this. Religious and employment reasons caused migrations. Indenture system, ethnic rivalry, marginalization and victimization all play factors into the difficulty for Caribbean’s to move.

Factors such as labor shortages have also caused serious changes in labor patterns. It is unfortunate that tourism by members of countries such as ours has caused certain areas to become impoverished creating a lack of balance by boosting the economy of sectors with heavy commercial industry. However, not all tourism and migration is necessarily a bad thing. To quote the article: Other intra-east Indian Caribbean migrations from Guyana to Antigua and St. Kitts where immigration and work contact policies have been more welcoming. Despite the article speculating about various circumstances which cause migration, the article boils these factors down to six major theories, as the article addresses: Pull Factors, Push Factors, Relative Deprivation, Networking and Linkages, and the Iron Law of Labour migration, all of which I shall unpack

There will always be work to be done. This is where the Pull Factors come from. This opens the opportunity for laborers outside the country in the surrounding area to migrate and look for work. The counterpoint to this is Push Factors, which is essentially the same principle of Pull Factors but in reverse. As the opportunities for better life appear in other countries and long term deteriorating conditions such as unemployment and instability causes migration to supplement a change in the quality of life for