Movilizaciones caribeñas por la justicia y la reparación: el caso de CARICOM

This paper analyses the role of law in the mobilizations for reparation, restoration, and recognition of historical injuries and violent legacies caused by colonialism, slavery and racism in the State members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). By emphasizing on the CARICOM requests for reparation and restitution, this paper addresses the following three objectives: 1) to expose how the effects of colonial violence are interpreted; 2) to identify who are the main actors and what are the claims arising from these Caribbean mobilizations; 3) to analyze the uses of law implemented by this mobilization and the legal and political positions assumed by the European states. The paper proposes a sociolegal analysis of the legal mobilizations in postcolonial Caribbean countries. This overview of the CARICOM mobilization for reparation and justice will allow us to establish a dialogue about the role of postcolonial states in the process of memorialization of a violent colonial past and about the possibility of decolonial justices in postcolonial Caribbean states.