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Virgin Islands Migration: the woes, abuses, and solutions
By Dickson Igwe
Four stories in the Virgin Islands national press of July 2013 spoke profoundly to a major issue. The narratives were all linked to the combustible topic of migration. This twin narrative attempts to sew these stories together into a single opinion piece.
Down Islanders, Filipinas, and ignorant rhetoric
By Dickson Igwe
Any observer of Virgin Islands national media, or a certain section thereof, will easily recognize a growing rendition to fear, xenophobia, and even jingoism, in this small country. Jingoism in the context of this story is alluding to the, INSIDER VERSUS OUTSIDER, or DOWN ISLAND VERSUS BORN HERE song and dance of recent months.