Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838–1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana
Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838–1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana
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1838-1900 年英属西印度群岛的移民和精神疾病：特立尼达和英属圭亚那的案例
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2013
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Letizia Gramaglia
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Letizia Gramaglia
The development of the asylum system in the British West Indies coincided with the aftermath of the abolition of slavery, a period of intense social transformation and diversified internal and external labour migration. The onset of a system of apprenticeship, a six-year interim phase between abolition and actual freedom set out by the English Parliament to reduce the burden of mass emancipation, made cheap plantation labour a pressing need.1 Planters in some of the larger colonies endeavoured to import workers from neighbouring sugar territories, generating erratic yet significant migration flows in the region. From as early as 1835, increasing numbers of freed slaves moved from the most populated areas, particularly Barbados, St Kitts and Antigua, to less densely populated colonies of the British West Indies, including British Guiana, Trinidad and Jamaica. Small waves of European labourers, mainly Portuguese from Madeira, were also introduced to the region after 1835 to work on sugar plantations, and from 1838 onwards large numbers of contracted workers, from India and China, were recruited to replace slave labour. Although on a much smaller scale than major movements of population from Europe to North America over the same period, this phase of immigration into the West Indies had a lasting and decisive impact on the social, economic, political and cultural history of the region.2
