Book ID: CBB940663421

Empire's Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation (2017)

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Casey, Matthew (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 326
Language: English

Haitian seasonal migration to Cuba is central to narratives about race, national development, and US imperialism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean. Filling a major gap in the literature, 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. Migrants' efforts to improve their living and working conditions and practice their religions shaped migration policies, economic realities, ideas of race, and Caribbean spirituality in Haiti and Cuba as each experienced US imperialism.

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Review Amelia Hintzen (2019) Review of "Empire's Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation". Agricultural History (pp. 195-197). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Monzote, Reinaldo Funes
Bronfman, Alejandra
Osgood, Robert V.
Crawford, Sharika
Jones, C. Allan
Ventura, Theresa
Concepts
Agriculture
Plantations
Sugar and sugar industry
Labor and laborers
Farmers
Colonialism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Cuba
Caribbean
United States
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Haiti (Caribbean)
Philippines
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