Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group of foreign-born? Or do they differ in their adaptation and transnational ties depending on when they emigrated and with what lived experiences? Between Castro’s rise to power in 1959 and the early twenty-first century more than a million Cubans immigrated to the United States. While it is widely known that Cuban émigrés have exerted a strong hold on Washington policy toward their homeland; Eckstein uncovers a fascinating paradox: the recent arrivals; although poor and politically weak; have done more to transform their homeland than the influential and prosperous early exiles who have tried for half a century to bring the Castro regime to heel. The impact of the so-called New Cubans is an unintended consequence of the personal ties they maintain with family in Cuba; ties the first arrivals oppose. This historically-grounded; nuanced book offers a rare in-depth analysis of Cuban immigrants’ social; cultural; economic; and political adaptation; their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city;" and their cross-border engagement and homeland impact. Eckstein accordingly provides new insight into the lives of Cuban immigrants; into Cuba in the post Soviet era; and into how Washington’s failed Cuba policy might be improved. She also posits a new theory to deepen the understanding not merely of Cuban but of other immigrant group adaptation.
#424915 in Books Paul Spickard 2007-06-23 2007-08-13Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.65 x 1.68 x 6.69l; 2.79 #File Name: 0415935938744 pagesAlmost All Aliens Immigration Race and Colonialism in American History and Identity
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Spickard's book is good if you like the subjectBy WilSpickard's book is good if you like the subject. It's very subjective; though he makes some interesting and well thought out points often followed with reasoning and facts.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I've enjoyed this book a lotBy BrayanI've enjoyed this book a lot. This was needed for class and it arrived in great time. Also; this book was very amazing and appealing to me. I tend to object courses textbook but this textbook was an exception.8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Greatest Book on Race Formation in the US...ever!By TriciaThis is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It really lays down the facts about the founding of the US and the implications for all minority groups involved. I feel as though everything I have been taught in public school was a fabricated enhancement of white power (I am white by the way). Finally; all the facts are in one place. I think every person in America should read this book.
