Diplomacy Meets Migration
US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

Hideaki Kami (Author)

9781108437547, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 January 2020

378 pages, 9 b/w illus. 1 map
23 x 15 x 2.2 cm, 0.6 kg

'Whatever the next years may bring, by combining an analysis of diplomacy and migration, and by taking Miami seriously as a third actor in US-Cuban relations, this book does much to explain how the dynamic came to be.' Patrick Iber, Cuban Studies

Diplomacy Meets Migration examines diplomacy, migration, and the history of US relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Hideaki Kami draws on declassified US and Cuban diplomatic sources, as well as Miami-Cuban lobby records, to challenge traditional interpretations that mainly focus on the two national capitals, Washington and Havana. By incorporating Miami into the story of foreign affairs, Kami assesses the intersection between migration and diplomacy, and considers how migration emerged as a critical issue that shaped the dynamism of US relations with Cuba. Kami demonstrates that the US government reformulated its Cuban policy in response to Fidel Castro's institutionalization of power, while simultaneously trying to build a new relationship with the Miami Cuban community, a new, politically mobilized constituency within US society. He shows how both migration control and migrant politics became important components of US foreign policy, which in turn influenced Cuban policy toward the United States.

List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Between revolution and counterrevolution
2. The legacy of violence
3. A time for dialogue?
4. The crisis of 1980
5. Acting as a 'superhero'?
6. The two contrary currents
7. Making foreign policy domestic?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Diplomacy [JPSD], Migration, immigration & emigration [JFFN], The Cold War [HBTW], History of the Americas [HBJK]