“Cuba is not the only country with a repressive regime, but Cubans have privileges in the United States that no one else enjoys”

  • Atahualpa Amerise @atareports
  • BBC News World

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Few times has an academic work caused as much controversy in Florida as the last book by the American sociologist Susan Eckstein did.

Eckstein (1942) is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston University, specializing in relations between Cuba and the United States.

In an interview with BBC Mundo, the academic assures that she researched for six years to write her work Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America (“Cuban Privilege: The Making of US Immigration Inequality”, Cambridge University Press, 2022).

The book analyzes the evolution of the rights and benefits that Cubans arriving in the US have enjoyed by law since 1959 -the year of the triumph of Fidel Castro’s Revolution- unlike immigrants from other Latin American countries and the Caribbean.

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