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Caribbean boat people have gained attention as successive, illegal migratory waves of boaters have braved life and limb to flee their island- countries.1 Although successive flows of Caribbean boat people suggest a certain pattern, the essence of the phenomenon is unstructured. Each boat person must make a personal decision whether or not to alter the course of his or her life dramatically by fleeing the home island by sea in risky circumstances. Such momentous decisions are not random or arbitrary, but are certainly taken out of desperation. Many such individual decisions are motivated by similar desperate circumstances and generate trends.
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Morris, M.A. (1996). Coast Guards and Boat People. In: Beruff, J.R., Muñiz, H.G. (eds) Security Problems and Policies in the Post-Cold War Caribbean. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24493-5_12
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