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Overview"While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched themselves into the Florida Straits on rickety rafts were ""illegal refugees"" and sent them to join over fifteen thousand Haitians already being held on Guantánamo after fleeing a violent coup in Haiti. Escape to Miami recounts the gripping stories of the rafters who were detained in Guantánamo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. After working in the camps for a year as an employee of the U.S. Justice Department, Elizabeth Campisi conducted life history interviews with twelve of the rafters, chronicling their departures from Cuba, their rafting trips, life on the base, and their initial experiences in Cuban Miami. Through these remarkable narratives, the book details the ways in which the rafters used creative expression, such as performance and artwork, to cope with the traumas they experienced in the camp. Campisi explores these coping mechanisms, showing that, when people work through individually-traumatic experiences as a group, the new meanings they create during that process can come together to change existing cultures or create new ones. Vivid and engaging, Escape to Miami gives voice to the untold stories of Guantánamo. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in policy, Latin American history, and human rights." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Campisi (Anthropologist, Albany, NY, Anthropologist, Albany, NY)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 15.60cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780197604380ISBN 10: 0197604382 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 16 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews...Campisi has captured both the triumph and the trauma of what is surely an indelible identity within the Cuban diaspora....[A] strong study....It would lend itself to graduate and undergraduate classes in ethnography, migration, oral history, global health, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and Cuban studies.--Holly Ackerman, New West Indian Guide ...Campisi has captured both the triumph and the trauma of what is surely an indelible identity within the Cuban diaspora....[A] strong study....It would lend itself to graduate and undergraduate classes in ethnography, migration, oral history, global health, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and Cuban studies. * Holly Ackerman, New West Indian Guide * Author InformationElizabeth Campisi is an anthropologist who lives in Albany, New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |