Jamaica

Caribbean youth, urban governance and the right to the city

Caribbean Youth, Urban Governance and the Right to the City is a project that addresses issues of poverty, social exclusion, violence and the right to the city. It is a project that aims to develop a foundation for future research that will ultimately help underprivileged young women and men of African Caribbean descent in Jamaica, to contextualize and effectively respond to the challenges they face within the cities that they live in, as urban space becomes increasingly oriented towards the goal of market-oriented economic growth.

Our comparative approach to studying how young people of African Caribbean descent experience, perceive and negotiate the urban environments in which they live, will allow researchers in the global North and South to explore the role that cultural practices and transnational exchanges might play in helping young people across this diasporic community to develop strategic governance practices for articulating rights and taking up responsibilities in the cities where they live.