Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy

A decade after the Mariel boatlift brought thousands of Cubans to Florida, the politics of migration within the Americas had still received only preliminary attention. This collection, gathered by Christopher Mitchell, sets out to change that with case studies of population flows from Cuba, Central America, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and of the policies that shaped them.

The contributing scholars bring a wealth of new data to the question of how governments and migration act on one another, placing the volume within a wider shift in the study of international population movement. Published in 1992, it is a solid, scholarly resource for students and researchers of United States foreign policy, Latin American and Caribbean politics, or the history of immigration to America.