Empire's guestworkers: Haitian migrants in Cuba during the age of US occupation

✍ Scribed by Casey, Matthew

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 328
Series: Afro-Latin America
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

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.

✦ Subjects

Emigration and immigration;Foreign workers, Haitian;Foreign workers, Haitian--Cuba--History--20th century;Foreign workers, Haitian--Cuba--Social conditions--20th century;Migrant labor--Cuba--Social conditions--20th century;Migrant labor--Social conditions;Travailleurs étrangers haïtiens--Conditions sociales--Cuba--Histoire universelle--20e siècle;Travailleurs étrangers haïtiens--Cuba--Histoire--20e siècle;Travailleurs migrants--Conditions sociales--Cuba;History;Foreign workers, Haitian -- Cuba -

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