Within the Caribbean there may be stop- like quality in labor migration with end point in the USA, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and brazil but over the last couple of decades there has undoubtedly been a general enlargement of the region’s migratory system which has turned several countries into sources of multiple outflows ( Bach, 1983; Kritz, 1981 ) Columbia exports migrants to Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama and the USA ; Salvadorians have been going to Honduras for decades and now go to Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama. Guatemalans for its tobacco and coffee harvests and has been receiving refugees from throughout Central America. Puerto Rico, for long the source of immigration to the USA, has become a recipient for significant numbers of migrants, mostly from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Furthermore, these flows are variable in composition. Most prevalent are people of low skill, mostly male, who circulate temporarily across continuous borders, but growing numbers constitute the brain- drain/ gain to the USA or are refugees ( either rural peasants displaced in central American wars or better- educated professionals fleeing repressive regimes such as those or Cuba, Chile or Argentina ). The USA – Canada – Caribbean region migration network is thus highly complex geographically , and its pattern will only be understood in terms of the interaction of both general forces and highly variable local conditions.