Escape to Miami av Elizabeth (Anthropologist Albany NY Anthropologist Albany NY) Campisi

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While the Naval base in Guant¿mo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched themselves into the Florida Straits on rickety rafts were "illegal refugees" and sent them to join over fifteen thousand Haitians already being held on Guant¿moafter fleeing a violent coup in Haiti.Escape to Miami recounts the gripping stories of the rafters who were detained in Guant¿mo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. After working in the camps for a year as an employee of the U.S. Justice Department, Elizabeth Campisi conducted life history interviews with twelve of the rafters, chronicling their departures from Cuba, their rafting trips, life on the base, and their initial experiences in Cuban Miami. Through these remarkable narratives, the book details the ways inwhich the rafters