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CUBAN REFUGEES IN MIAMI: PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ADJUSTMENT

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1982
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Since 1959, Cuban refugees have transformed the economic and political structure of the Miami metropolitan area. Refugees have been successful in their employment and housing pursuits, although they have often been in competition with Miami's Blacks. However, by strengthening the local economy, Cuban refugees have ultimately benefited the entire metropolitan area. This infrastructure of the Cuban community has promoted economic success, but it has also altered refugee economic assimilation into the American mainstream. Cuban refugees also dramatically altered metropolitan Miami's political structure. Participation in exile politics at first slowed political assimilation, but by the seventies naturalized Cubans began to participate in American electoral politics. The growth of Cuban- American voting has Cubanized local politics, particularly in Miami and Hialeah.
Title: CUBAN REFUGEES IN MIAMI: PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ADJUSTMENT.
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Name(s): DARASZ, KATHY ANN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Mohl, Raymond A., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 129 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Since 1959, Cuban refugees have transformed the economic and political structure of the Miami metropolitan area. Refugees have been successful in their employment and housing pursuits, although they have often been in competition with Miami's Blacks. However, by strengthening the local economy, Cuban refugees have ultimately benefited the entire metropolitan area. This infrastructure of the Cuban community has promoted economic success, but it has also altered refugee economic assimilation into the American mainstream. Cuban refugees also dramatically altered metropolitan Miami's political structure. Participation in exile politics at first slowed political assimilation, but by the seventies naturalized Cubans began to participate in American electoral politics. The growth of Cuban- American voting has Cubanized local politics, particularly in Miami and Hialeah.
Identifier: 14127 (digitool), FADT14127 (IID), fau:10941 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Ionesco, Eugène--Criticism and interpretation
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