Cuban Privilege

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-83061-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal rights, Cuban immigrants were able to enter the country without authorization, and have access to welfare benefits and citizenship status. This book is the first to reveal the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans. Initially privileged to undermine the Castro-led revolution in the throes of the Cold War, one US President after another extended new entitlements, even in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on unseen archives, interviews, and survey data, Cuban Privilege highlights how Washington, in the process of privileging Cubans, transformed them from agents of US Cold War foreign policy into a politically powerful force influencing national policy. Comparing the exclusionary treatment of neighboring Haitians, the book discloses the racial and political biases embedded within US immigration policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eckstein, Susan Eva

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; Preface: Privileged Cubans; List of acronyms; 1. The making of Cuban immigration exceptionalism, 1959–1979; 2. The privileging of Cuban immigrants in the United States, 1959–1979; 3. The immigration crisis of 1980: Carter Administration privileging of Cubans anew, spillover benefits for Haitians; 4. Delinking Cubans from Haitians: The deepening of Cuban privileging and the turn against Haitians under the Reagan and Bush I administrations; 5. Taking with one hand, giving with the other: Clinton administration retraction and expansion of Cuban immigrant entitlements; 6. From extension to retraction of Cuban immigrant entitlements amidst mainly exclusion of Haitians: The George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations; 7. From heaven to hell under the Trump administration: Walls for Cubans after all; 8. Exceptionalism in practice? Actual immigration, lessons learned.

Über Autor(innen)

Eckstein, Susan Eva
Susan Eva Eckstein is Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and the Sociology Department at Boston University. Specializing in social movements, rights and justice in, and immigration from, Latin America, she has single-authored, edited and co-edited nine books. She is the recipient of many fellowships, including from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute.