Discourses of labor, migraion, and culture in the Caribbean have been grounded historically in the rhetoric of slavery and African cultural retentions. However, the coerced migration of South Asians and East Asians to the New World for the purposes of labor is also entrenched in histories of colonialism, nationalism, and culture in the Caribbean as well as the rest of the Americas. "The Asian Experience in the Caribbean and the Guyanas: Labor, Migration, Literature and Culturs" envisions a cross-cultural interdisciplinary dialogue that seeks to reconfigure or shift the geographic triangle composed of Europe, Africa, and the Americas, based on a history of slavery and colonization, to include Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Americas, based on a history of slavery and colonization, to include Asia, the Caribbean, and North America as a way of forging new paradigms for discussing the roles and contributions of Asians in the Caribbean. Scholarship will represent related fields of Gender Studies, Geography, History, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Communications, as well as in literary culture.

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