Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century

Sébastien Chauvin is a sociologist and an associate professor at the Institut des Sciences Sociales at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research has dealt with immigration, citizenship, gender, sexuality, law and labour in France and the USA. With Bruno Cousin, he has also developed a multi-sited research programme on social and symbolic capital and the cultural sociology of economic élites, with a focus on Western Europe (élite male social club sociability), the Caribbean region (Saint-Barthélemy), and new forms of conspicuous consumption among the global super-rich. His other ongoing writing explores the intersections of race, nationalism, sexuality and citizenship in the Netherlands, France and the USA. Peter Clegg is Associate Professor in Politics and Head of the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He was formerly Visiting Research Fellow at both KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, Netherlands, and at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His main research interests focus on contemporary developments within the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and the international political economy of the Caribbean. Bruno Cousin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po and an affiliate of the Centre of European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), France. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Lille, France, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA, and has held visiting positions at NYU, the University of Amsterdam and Birkbeck. His research interests focus on class relations, residential segregation, social capital and forms of bourgeois sociability, and the modes of élites’ legitimization. He is currently conducting research with Sébastien Chauvin on Saint-Barthélemy (French West Indies), whose first results have been published in Ethnologie française and Geographies of the Super-Rich (2013), and he has recently co-authored Ce que les riches pensent des pauvres (2017).

• Introduction – Offshore Europe on the move Sébastien Chauvin, Peter Clegg and Bruno CousinPart I: Institutional, Political and Regulatory Processes: The transformation of relations with the metropolitan states, the EU, and the international community1 The British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean and their quest for further autonomyPeter Clegg2 Status Change in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: What for?Lammert de Jong and Ron van der Veer3 The French Caribbean between egalitarian aspirations and identity assertions: Towards a realisation of difference?Justin Daniel4 From Brussels with love: Shifting governance and the evolution of ‘Overseas Europe’Matthew Louis Bishop and Genève Phillip5 Brexit and the Overseas Territories: Repercussions for the peripheryPeter Clegg6 Global financial governance and the Euro-Caribbean overseas territories: First and second order effects for offshore financeWilliam VlcekPart II: Economic Transformations, Local Elites and the Current Dynamics of Inequality7 Colonial heritages and continuities in Guadeloupe and Martinique: An economic perspectiveGuy Numa8 A postcolonial economy? Protesters, lobbyists and small-business-owners in Martinique after 2009Audrey Célestine9 French Guiana – A ‘Plural Society’ in a post-colonial contextGérard Collomb and Edenz Maurice10 Deconstructing development: immigration, society and economy in early 21st century CaymanRoy Bodden11 Sub-elites as fiduciary gatekeepers of global elites: A fiscal anthropology of the Cayman Islands as an offshore financial centreMay Hen12 Integration with the Metropolis: The Dutch Caribbean ‘municipalities’ after 2010Wouter Veenendaal13 Intimacy and integration: The ambivalent achievement of marriage equality in the Dutch Caribbean, 2007-12Chelsea Schields