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