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Law Writing, Immigration, And Globalization In The British Virgin Islands, Bill Maurer

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In this article Mr. Bill Maurer addresses a fundamental tension

at work in the British Virgin Islands: while British Virgin Islanders

(BVIslanders) proudly term themselves a "law and order" people

and seek to distinguish themselves from other Caribbean peoples,

the territory remains as wedded as ever to its British rulers and the

West. Mr. Maurer first notes that when a colonial people begins to

view itself as essentially different from its rulers, it may begin a

concomitant move toward self-rule. He shows that while the BVI

exhibits many attributes of such a territory, BVIslanders consider

their ties to Britain a …