Reconstruction of Ethnicity among the Asians in the Caribbean- Globalization and Creolization

我的研究重点是加勒比地区亚洲人中最被忽视的中国人，因此我的研究对国内外该地区的研究做出了贡献。我通过参与者对他们的特殊活动和生活的观察，以及对许多在当地出生的、在社会经济领域迅速发展的华人的密集和广泛的采访，阐明了他们的民族是如何重新焕发活力的，以及他们如何为当地社会做出贡献的，特别是在他们到来150周年之际。20世纪80年代以来，随着中国改革开放政策的实施，恰逢牙买加经济自由化政策的转变，年轻的华工涌入自由区的工厂。通过亲属网络的传统类型的移民也在继续。这两场运动都极大地挑战了当地的华人社区，我可以研究这些方面和活力。特别重要的是对长期悬而未决的华人公墓的重新组织，由于70年代牙买加政治经济的激进化，导致“富人”向海外“外逃”，华人公墓变得荒凉。最新的知识和技术（尤其是信息技术）以及跨国金融网络连接了几代人，使这一切成为可能。这些运动显示了宏观全球化和微观上主流非洲-克里奥尔人克里奥尔化的不同方面，为全球本土化、散居研究和跨国主义的差异提供了重要的例子。此外，圭亚那体现了明显的差异，印度人和中国人在那里的地位不平等。克里奥尔化的华人社区在移民过程中出现了功能失调，但也出现了新的华人。然而，由于语言、宗教和生活方式的差异，他们之间的相互交流很少建立起来，这对他们的分裂起着决定性的影响。

I focused on the most neglected Chinese among the Asians in the Caribbean studies, hence my research contribution to the said area studies both at home and abroad. I have clarified bow their ethnicity has been re-vitalized and how they have contributed to the local society especially with the 150^th anniversary of their arrival, through participant-observations in their special events and lives and both intensive and extensive interviews for many local-born Chinese, who have speedily advanced themselves in socio-economic fields. With the Chinese Open Door policy with reformation since the 1980s, coincided with Jamaica's changed policies to economic liberalization, young Chinese laborers swarmed into the Free Zone factories. Traditional types of migrants through kin networks have also continued. Both movements have greatly challenged the local Chinese community, of which aspects and dynamism I could research on. Especially important was the re-organization of the long-pending Chinese Cemetery, which became desolate through the 70s' radicalization of Jamaica's political economy, which caused 'exodus' of the 'haves' to overseas. It has been possible with the latest knowledge and technology (esp. IT) and transnational diasporic networks of finance connecting generations. Such movements have shown different aspects of macro-scale globalization and micro-level creolization of the mainstream Afro-Creoles, which provide significant examples of differences in glocalization, diaspora studies and transnationalism. Moreover, Guyana exemplifies stark differences, where Indians and Chinese have positioned unequally. Creolized Chinese community have dysfunctioned with their emigration, but new Chinese have taken place. However, their mutual communication have seldom been established due to their differences in language, religion and lifestyles, affecting decisively on their split.