Empire''s Guestworkers - Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of Us Occupation

An innovative analysis of Haitian migrant experience, central to the exploration of race, politics, and development during US military occupation in Cuba.

List of contents

1. Making the Haitian-Cuban border and creating temporary migrants; 2. Leaving US occupied Haiti; 3. Living and working in Cuban sugar plantations; 4. Picking coffee and building families in Eastern Cuba; 5. Creating religious communities, serving spirits and decrying sorcery; 6. Mobilizing politically and debating race and empire in Cuban cities; 7. Returning to Haiti and the aftermath of US occupation.

About the author

Matthew Casey is Nina Bell Suggs Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Summary

This innovative study reconstructs Haitian guestworkers' lived experiences as they moved among the rural and urban areas of Haiti and the sugar plantations, coffee farms, and cities of eastern Cuba. It offers an unprecedented glimpse into the daily workings of empire, labor, and political economy in Haiti and Cuba.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Casey, Matthew (University of Southern Mississippi Casey, Matthew (University of Southern Mississippi) Casey, Casey Matthew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107127692
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12769-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Afro-Latin America; Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Haiti, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, 20th Century, Cuba, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Haiti