Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Perspectives on human migration: introduction
- Section 1 Theory
- Section 2 Geography and migration
- 8 Population structure and migration in Africa: correlations between archaeological, linguistic, and genetic data
- 9 Human migrations in North Africa
- 10 Identity, voice, community: new African immigrants to Kansas
- 11 The African colonial migration into Mexico: history and biological consequences
- 12 Demic expansion or cultural diffusion: migration and Basque origins
- 13 Consequences of migration among the Roma: immunoglobulin markers as a tool in investigating population relationships
- 14 Migration, assimilation, and admixture: genes of a Scot?
- 15 Mennonite migrations: genetic and demographic consequences
- 16 Human migratory history: through the looking-glass of genetic geography of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 17 Peopling the Tibetan plateau: migrants, genes, and genetic adaptations
- 18 Migration, globalization, instability, and Chinese in Peru
- 19 The great blue highway: human migration in the Pacific
- 20 Migration of pre-Hispanic and contemporary human Mexican populations
- 21 A review of the Tupi expansion in the Amazon
- 22 Molecular consequences of migration and urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia
- 23 Migration in Afro-Brazilian rural communities: crossing historical, demographic, and genetic data
- 24 Indentured migration, gene flow, and the formation of the Indo-Costa Rican population
- 25 Causes and consequences of migration to the Caribbean Islands and Central America: an evolutionary success story
- Section 3 Overview
- Index
- References
24 - Indentured migration, gene flow, and the formation of the Indo-Costa Rican population
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Perspectives on human migration: introduction
- Section 1 Theory
- Section 2 Geography and migration
- 8 Population structure and migration in Africa: correlations between archaeological, linguistic, and genetic data
- 9 Human migrations in North Africa
- 10 Identity, voice, community: new African immigrants to Kansas
- 11 The African colonial migration into Mexico: history and biological consequences
- 12 Demic expansion or cultural diffusion: migration and Basque origins
- 13 Consequences of migration among the Roma: immunoglobulin markers as a tool in investigating population relationships
- 14 Migration, assimilation, and admixture: genes of a Scot?
- 15 Mennonite migrations: genetic and demographic consequences
- 16 Human migratory history: through the looking-glass of genetic geography of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 17 Peopling the Tibetan plateau: migrants, genes, and genetic adaptations
- 18 Migration, globalization, instability, and Chinese in Peru
- 19 The great blue highway: human migration in the Pacific
- 20 Migration of pre-Hispanic and contemporary human Mexican populations
- 21 A review of the Tupi expansion in the Amazon
- 22 Molecular consequences of migration and urbanization in Peruvian Amazonia
- 23 Migration in Afro-Brazilian rural communities: crossing historical, demographic, and genetic data
- 24 Indentured migration, gene flow, and the formation of the Indo-Costa Rican population
- 25 Causes and consequences of migration to the Caribbean Islands and Central America: an evolutionary success story
- Section 3 Overview
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Few regions in the world have seen as many human population upheavals as has the Caribbean region broadly defined (including the Atlantic coast of Central America). While it has been well established that the Caribbean region was inhabited by large human populations before the European invasion, it is difficult to estimate exactly how many people died after the Europeans arrived. In his book Born to Die (1998), Cook details the earliest stages of the European-Amerindian contact in the Caribbean. The sad conclusion to Cook’s account is that after a quarter century of contact the Taino and their circum-Caribbean neighbors were approaching extinction. Since the native populations of the Caribbean essentially died off (Cook, 2002; Kiple and Ornelas, 1996), the Europeans turned to African sources of labor to sustain their expansion into the region (Klein, 1978).
In this chapter we discuss the history of Caribbean human population migratory movements. We begin by taking a macro perspective which considers large migrations. We finish with a micro perspective focusing on a small population derived from East-Indian workers who settled in the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. We argue that the human migratory history of the Caribbean is evident in the genetic makeup of this small group of Indo-Costa Ricans.
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- Causes and Consequences of Human MigrationAn Evolutionary Perspective, pp. 499 - 511Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012