Dr. Terry-Ann Jones

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Dr. Terry-Ann Jones is actively involved in the programs of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Black Studies and serves on the advisory boards of both. Her areas of research and teaching interest are in international migration, particularly movement between Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. Her recently completed dissertation, "Comparative Diasporas: Jamaicans in South Florida and Toronto," compares Jamaican immigrants in the two metropolitan areas, examining the racial and ethnic setting and labor markets of the two areas, and the immigration policies of the two countries.

Dr. Jones' recent publications include "The Distribution and Socioeconomic Status of West Indians Living in the United States," in John W. Frazier and Eugene L. Tetty-Fio (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America (New York: Global Academic Publishing, 2006) and "Caribbean Hispanics Living in the United States," in Ines Miyares and Christopher Aierries (eds.), Contemporary Ethnicity in the United States: A Geographical Appraisal (New York: Rowman & Little Field Publishers, 2006), both co-authored with Thomas D. Boswell. Dr. Jones is currently working on an edited book on comparative Caribbean migration. She is also embarking on research on temporary labor migration in Brazil. Her research compares West Indian sugar cane workers in Florida and Brazilian sugar cane workers who travel from the Brazil's Northeast to the Central and Southeastern regions.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Miami, School of International Studies in 2005.

Dr. Jones' Curriculum Vitae