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Political Disaffection in Cuba´s Revolution and Exodus
Silvia Pedraza
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Description for Political Disaffection in Cuba´s Revolution and Exodus
Hardcover. This book explains the political disaffection of Cuban refugees. Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Num Pages: 382 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
The Cuban exodus is estimated to consist of around 12 percent of the country's population. It harbors several distinct waves of migrants, alike only in their final rejection of Cuba. Silvia Pedraza links the revolution and exodus not only as cause and consequence but also as profoundly social and human processes that were not only political and economic but also cognitive and emotive. Ironically for a community that defined itself as being in exile, virtually no studies of its political attitudes exist, and certainly none that encompass the changing political attitudes over 47 years of the exodus. Through the use ... Read more
The Cuban exodus is estimated to consist of around 12 percent of the country's population. It harbors several distinct waves of migrants, alike only in their final rejection of Cuba. Silvia Pedraza links the revolution and exodus not only as cause and consequence but also as profoundly social and human processes that were not only political and economic but also cognitive and emotive. Ironically for a community that defined itself as being in exile, virtually no studies of its political attitudes exist, and certainly none that encompass the changing political attitudes over 47 years of the exodus. Through the use ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521867870
SKU
V9780521867870
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About Silvia Pedraza
Silvia Pedraza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Political and Economic Migrants in America: Cubans and Mexicans (1985) and the co-editor of Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America (1996, with Ruben G. Rumbaut). She has also published articles in such journals as Social Science History and the Annual ... Read more
Reviews for Political Disaffection in Cuba´s Revolution and Exodus
'Pedraza's study is unique … an excellent and important contribution to the still-too-limited literature on Cuba's 1959 Revolution … the contributions offered by Pedraza's volume are more important than ever.' The Review of Politics