Cuban privilege : the making of immigrant inequality in America / Susan Eva Eckstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckstein, Susan, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Immigrants--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Immigrants.

Cubans--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Cubans.

Cuban Americans--History.

Cuban Americans.

Haitians--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Haitians.

Equality before the law--United States.

Equality before the law.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Cuba--Emigration and immigration.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108902465 (ebook)

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