Overview
Dr. Aieka Smith is a Lecturer in International Relations (IR). She teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the International Relations Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She holds MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Government (The UWI, Mona) and a BSc. in International Relations and Political Science (The UWI, Mona). She also serves as the Coordinator for the Internship in IR programme. Her research interests are diasporic citizenship, diaspora engagement, transnational political participation, immigrant belonging, and migration in small island developing states (SIDS).
Dr Smith was awarded the University of the West Indies 60th Anniversary Scholarship in 2008, the Canada -CARICOM Leadership Scholarship in 2009 (Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada) and the Trilateral Reconnection Project Fellowship in 2010 (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa) to conduct work geared towards her doctoral studies.
Research
Publications
Smith, A. Y. (2023). I Have Two Flags in my Heart: Diasporic Citizenship of Jamaicans Living in Britain.Observatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales, OASIS, 37, pp. 193-216.
Smith, A. Y. (2023). Contested Bodies and Delayed Decisions: Attitudes to COVID-19 Vaccines among Jamaicans. Observatory of Policies, Execution and Results of Public Administration, OPERA, 32, pp. 185-207.
Smith, A. Y. (2018). Physically Separate but Psychologically Inseparable: Notions of Belonging and Identity Among Jamaicans Living in Britain. In George K. Danns, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith and Fitzgerald Yaw (Eds.), Dynamics of Caribbean Diaspora Engagement: People, Policy, Practice (pp. 245-264).Georgetown: The University of Guyana Press.
