This book represents the product of a two-year research project and a four-year personal journey to explore the relationship between migration and economic development in the Caribbean area. Does Caribbean immigration to the United States assist or impede the economic development of the Caribbean? Would the curtailment of immigration affect the stability of the Caribbean? Can a certain mix of development strategies significantly reduce the pressures for migration? What can the United States and the Caribbean countries do separately and together to improve the prospects for economic development while permitting migration at manageable levels? This book begins with these questions and ends with some answers.

Robert A. Pastor is currently Professor of Political Science at Emory University and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Program at the Carter Center. He is on leave of absence in 1985-86 as a Fulbright Professor at El Colegio de Mexico. He directed a two-year research project on Migration and Development in the Caribbean at the School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland at College Park