Escape to Miami : an oral history of the Cuban rafter crisis /

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Escape to Miami is an oral history of the experience of detainees from Guantanamo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. Through life history interviews, the book offers the gripping stories of twelve rafters while also providing a study of group-level trauma and coping. Though important as an or...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campisi, Elizabeth, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Oxford oral history series.
Subjects:
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp > Biography.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
Since 1990
Cubans > Florida > Miami > Biography.
Refugees > Florida > Miami > Biography.
Oral history.
Psychic trauma > Case studies.
Adjustment (Psychology) > Case studies.
Noncitizens > Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base > Biography.
Illegal immigration > Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base > Biography.
Cubains > Floride > Miami > Biographies.
Réfugiés > Floride > Miami > Biographies.
Histoire orale.
Traumatisme psychique > Études de cas.
Ajustement (Psychologie) > Études de cas.
Immigration clandestine > Cuba > Base navale de la baie de Guantánamo > Biographies.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Noncitizens
Illegal immigration
Adjustment (Psychology)
Cubans
Oral history
Psychic trauma
Refugees
Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) > History.
Cuba > History > 1990- > Biography.
Miami (Fla.) > Biography.
Base navale de la baie de Guantánamo (Cuba) > Histoire.
Cuba > Histoire > 1990- > Biographies.
Cuba
Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
Florida > Miami
Interview
Biography
Case Reports
interviews.
Interviews
Biographies
Case studies
History
Interviews.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 No More Mariels: History and the Rafter Crisis; 2 Post-​Cold War Cuba: The Special Period, Disaffection, and Escape; 3 Gitmo: From Navy Base to Immigration Detention Center; 4 Coping in the Camps: Toward Individual and Collective Resilience; 5 Creative Expression in the Camps; 6 Resolving A Different Kind of Rafter Crisis; Epilogue; Appendix: The Interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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