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Cuban immigration greatly affected Miami's future demographics. For example, the net immigration of African Americans into Miami was reduced during the 1960s in comparison to previous years. [9] This was the result of Cuban immigrants competing for jobs that had often been afforded to African Americans living in Miami.
"Observers in Miami at the time of the Boatlift noted the strain caused by the Mariel immigration," wrote University of California, Berkeley, labor economist David Card in his highly influential ...
A book to be presented at Florida International University in Miami on Friday evening that advocates ending immigration benefits for what it calls “privileged” Cuban immigrants has sparked ...
Amalia Z. Daché, an Afro-Cuban associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, herself a 1980s Mariel boatlift refugee, called such treatment “offensive to Cuban refugees and immigrants ...
Cuban immigration to the United States, for the most part, occurred in two periods: the first series of immigration of wealthy Cuban Americans to the United States resulted from Cubans establishing cigar factories in Tampa and from attempts to overthrow Spanish colonial rule by the movement led by José Martí, the second to escape from Communist rule under Fidel Castro following the Cuban ...
View of the Fort Lauderdale, 1980. This was the city many resentful Anglo-Americans relocated to avoid Miami's Cuban immigrants. As the community settled in, it faced intense discrimination and a difficult language barrier. Immigrant Luis Botifoll notes, "Some resented us because we spoke Spanish, we would talk too loud, and took jobs away from ...
Confronted with the ire of Cuban-American Republican politicians over a controversial book about Cuban immigration “privilege,” Florida International University President Kenneth A. Jessell ...
Task Force members were appointed by the Miami City Commission, [40] with urban planner and Cuban community leader Jesús Permuy named as its chair. [41] It was tasked with studying the social and economic effects of the boatlift, particularly in Little Havana , which was an epicenter of the migration.