Neither Colombian nor Jamaican: A Perspective from the Caribbean Islands of San Andrés and Providencia

In this paper, I explore the ways foreign visitors, Colombian officials, and island residents articulated the nationality of San Andrés and Providencia islanders. By examining travel accounts, official correspondence, missionary records, newspaper articles, diplomatic reports, and published oral history accounts, I argue that Colombian nationality served as a pragmatic political affiliation that neither superseded nor replaced their supranational cultural and familial relations across the circum-Caribbean.