[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Susan Eckstein’s Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America (Cambridge College Press, 2022) will probably be launched with a dialogue moderated by Jorge Duany (Director, Cuban Analysis Institute, FIU) on Friday, December 9, 2022, 7:00pm, at Florida Worldwide College’s Wertheim Performing Arts Middle (positioned at 10910 SW seventeenth Avenue, Miami, Florida).
Mary C. Waters (Harvard College) describes, “Cuban Privilege is the story of how eleven presidents from Eisenhower to Obama accorded Cuban immigrants privileges denied to all different immigrants. By contrasting the completely different remedy afforded to Dominican and Haitian immigrants, Eckstein demonstrates the interaction of race, overseas coverage and politics in our immigration system. A terrific historical past and sociology of immigration coverage, this e-book is a window into the realities of America’s messy and unequal immigration insurance policies. [. . .].”
Description: For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of many largest immigrant teams within the nation, distinctive entitlements. Whereas different unauthorized immigrants confronted detention, deportation, and no authorized rights, Cuban immigrants have been in a position to enter the nation with out authorization and have entry to welfare advantages and citizenship standing. This e-book is the primary to disclose the complete vary of entitlements granted to Cubans. Initially privileged to undermine the Castro-led revolution within the throes of the Chilly Warfare, one US President after one other prolonged new entitlements, even within the post-Chilly Warfare period.
Drawing on unseen archives, interviews, and survey knowledge, Cuban Privilege highlights how Washington, within the means of privileging Cubans, reworked them from brokers of US Chilly Warfare overseas coverage right into a politically highly effective pressure influencing nationwide coverage. Evaluating the exclusionary remedy of neighboring Haitians, the e-book discloses the racial and political biases embedded inside US immigration coverage.
See extra data and register for the occasion at https://cri.fiu.edu/occasions/2022/book-presentation-cuban-privilege-the-making-of-immigrant-inequality-in-america
For extra data on the e-book, see https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cuban-privilege/9C816C6897367585C97EFEC03E1E8419#fndtn-information