Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - 6 Table of Contents - 10 List of Maps - 12 List of Abbreviations - 14 1. Introduction - 18 2. Methodology - 46 3. Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago - 78 4. Caribbean Urban Livelihoods - 130 5. Home-Based Economic Activities - 164 6. Organisins HBEAs - 198 7. HBEAs, Institutions and Social Relations - 240 8. Conclusions - 272 Bibliography - 296 Appendix - 316 Samenvatting - 320

About the Author

Hebe Verrest is post doc researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, in Leiden