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  • 2 - The Privileging of Cuban Immigrants in the United States, 1959–1979

  • Susan Eva Eckstein, Boston University
  • Book:
    Cuban Privilege
    Published online:
    19 May 2022
    Print publication:
    02 June 2022, pp 43-73

  • Summary

    The chapter describes the unique benefits the Eisenhower through Nixon administrations extended to Cubans after their arrival, as refugees, even though they did not meet near-universally accepted criterion for refugee status. The chapter then addresses the impact the entitlements had on Cubans’ adaptation to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Cuban American economic mobility relative to that of native-born people into whose midst they moved, and tensions the privileging of Cubans unleashed between Cuban newcomers and native-born people. Settling mainly in Miami, Cuban immigrants provoked a major nativist response, race riots, and White flight. While the entitlements were good for the Cuban immigrants, they generated inequities and resentments, and unintended consequences.