Charmaine Crawford
Charmaine Crawford is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus. Her work focuses on the diasporic and transnational experiences of Caribbean people on the move. She received her PhD in Women's Studies from York University, Canada, where she also taught part-time in the School of Women's Studies and the Faculty of Humanities. She has also participated in many activities in Toronto, Canada around anti-racist, feminist and human rights issues. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in the Caribbean, transnational motherhood, migration, domestic work and post-colonial/ queer/feminist theorizing. Her involvement as Chair of the National Gender Advisory Committee, the UN Women Civil Society Advisory Group and the Caribbean Policy Development Centre's Project Steering Committee for Domestics and Artisans has been purposeful in centering gender in public policy.
