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Author Casey, Matthew, author.

Title Empire's Guestworkers : Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation / Matthew Casey.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Afro-Latin America
Afro-Latin America.
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2017).
Summary 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.
Contents Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Experiencing the Unevenness of Empire; 1 Making the Haitian Cuban Border and Creating Temporary Migrants; 2 Leaving US-Occupied Haiti; 3 Living and Working on 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
Epilogue: Enduring Legacies and Post-Colonial DivergencesBibliography; Index
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Subject Foreign workers -- Cuba.
Foreign workers.
Cuba.
Migrant labor -- Haiti.
Migrant labor.
Haiti.
Imperialism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Imperialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 1107127696 9781107127692 (OCoLC)959329462
ISBN 9781316412428 (ebook)
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