Caribbean Island Movements explores the different ways in which being mobile is central to the production and reproduction of social identities on the Caribbean island of Culebra. Rather than seeing insularity and mobility, and its associations, as mutually exclusive components, this ethnographic study demonstrates how they mutually inform each other. The book proposes the term of "transinsularism" as a means to articulate the complex ways in which islanders construct a unique place for themselves in the world, while referencing and engaging in practices of movement. Based on a long term relationship to the Caribbean island of Culebra, it describes how mobile islanders select from various, at times contradictory, discourses and practices in the process of fashioning their sense of island identity. It makes the case for a conscious social creative process where a group of individuals finds ways to narrativise a life-world that operates in tension with structural social forces associated with nation-building, colonialism, and "landed narratives".

"In particular, scholars interested in island geographies will find Cubero's analysis provocative. Those interested in migration (particularly to places like Lampedusa, Malta or Lesbos) will find transinsularity a useful term to understand the politics of exclusion and inclusion during periods of heightened migratory flows. Finally, the book questions the fundamental categories that have been traditionally mobilized to describe the Caribbean. For this reason alone, I encourage all Caribbeanists and island scholars to grapple with Cubero's provocative ethnography." - Emotion, Space and Society