Of Flights and Flotillas: Assimilation and Race in the Cuban Diaspora

Woltman, Kelly; Newbold, K. Bruce

doi:10.1080/00330120802520244

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“…Miami is a unique city that is not typical of the rest of the United States. Miami has a larger proportion of its total population being Hispanic than even Los Angeles (where there are more Hispanic people) and the largest population of Cubans outside of Cuba . It is also oriented toward the coast and rich in environmental amenities.…”

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Hazard Characteristics and Patterns of Environmental Injustice: Household‐Level Determinants of Environmental Risk in Miami, Florida

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Limited systematic comparative knowledge exists about patterns of environmental injustices in exposure to varied natural and technological hazards. To address this gap, we examine how hazard characteristics (i.e., punctuated event/suddenness of onset, frequency/magnitude, and divisibility) influence relationships between race/ethnicity, nativity, socioeconomic status (SES), older age, housing tenure, and residential hazard exposure. Sociodemographic data come from a random sample survey of 602 residents of the tricounty Miami Metropolitan Statistical Area (Florida). Hazard exposure was measured using spatial data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Air Toxics Assessment, and the Emergency Response Notification System. We specified generalized estimating equations (GEEs)-which account for sociospatial clustering-predicting 100-year flood risk, acute chemical accidental releases, and chronic cancer risk from air toxics from all and on-road mobile sources. We found that for punctuated, sudden onset events, some socially advantaged people were significantly at risk. Racial/ethnic minority variables were significant predictors of greater exposure to the three technological hazards, while higher SES was associated with 100-year flood risk exposure. Black and foreign-born Hispanic residents, and white and U.S.-born Hispanic residents, shared nearly identical risk profiles. Results demonstrate the complexities found in human-hazard associations and the roles of hazard characteristics in shaping disparate risk patterns.

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“…For example, White Cubans (native born and migrant) have higher levels of economic success as compared to their non-White counterparts. Non-White Cubans are less likely to speak English well and less likely to own homes than are White Cubans (Woltman & Newbold, 2009). The tract-level ACS data do not permit the disaggregation of Hispanic by Origin and by Race, making this analysis impossible using this data source.…”

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“…Miami continues to be the destination for the majority of Cuban immigrants into the U.S. and, when also considering American-born Cubans, has the largest population of Cubans outside of Cuba (Woltman & Newbold, 2009). The Cuban diaspora has generally been considered the most successful Hispanic migration in the U.S. as Cubans tend to have higher earnings than other Hispanic migrants (Woltman & Newbold, 2009). …”

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Hispanic heterogeneity and environmental injustice: intra-ethnic patterns of exposure to cancer risks from traffic-related air pollution in Miami

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“…High-end Spanish-speaking immigrants have integrated successfully into mainstream American society, such as the Cuban diaspora which relocated from Havana to Miami in the early 1960s after the Cuban revolution. Longitudinal data exist to indicate that 'white' Cuban immigrants tended to enjoy more financial success in the USA (Woltman & Newbold, 2009). However, these affluent asylum seekers have been viewed as immigrants and not expatriates or sojourners in contemporary US society as opposed to English speakers and to lesser degree German speakers who are viewed more as recreational visitors or long-term tourists.…”

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Americans create hybrid spaces in Costa Rica: a framework for exploring cultural and linguistic integration

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2011

Language and Intercultural Communication

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This study explores the ways in which English-speaking immigrants negotiate new linguistic and cultural landscapes. I examine immigration and intercultural communication in a more complex and nuanced manner by researching the ways in which expatriates or 'high-end' immigrants relocate and interact with host cultures. I conducted 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in-depth interviews in Costa Rica to explore this phenomenon. I employ critical discourse analysis to analyze the data in the theoretical framework of hybridity as the participants create interesting linguistic and cultural spaces in Costa Rica. In these moments of contingency and conflict we are forced to renegotiate the concept of immigration and construction of immigrant. This study illustrates both practical and theoretical intercultural implications as relatively affluent English-speaking migrants have begun to move outside their homelands. This movement of people creates a need for scholars to rethink definitions of immigrants as non-traditional immigrants relocate to new cultural and linguistic terrains.Este estudio explora los medios en los cuales los inmigrantes anglo-hablantes negocian su nuevo paisaje lingü ístico y cultural. Yo examino la inmigración y la comunicació n intercultural en una forma más compleja y detallada para investigar las formas en las cuales los expatriados o inmigrantes 'high-end' se trasladan e interactú an con las culturas predominantes. Por once meses conduje investigaciones de etnografía y realicé 40 entrevistas en Costa Rica para explorar este fenó meno. Yo utilizo el análisis crítico del discurso para analizar los datos, bajo de la estructura de la teoría de hibridez en la cual los participantes crean espacios interesantes de cultura y lingü ística en Costa Rica. Estos son los momentos de contingencia y conflicto que requieren renegociar el concepto de inmigració n y la construcció n de inmigrantes. Este estudio muestra ambas implicaciones interculturales en la práctica y la teoría, tal y como los migrantes anglo-hablantes con los recursos financieros han empezando a trasladarse de sus tierras natales. Este movimiento de gente implica una necesidad para que los académicos redefinan el concepto de inmigrantes mientras los inmigrantes que no sean tradicionales se trasladen a nuevas tierras culturales y lingü ísticas.The mixtures, clashes, and messy eruptions between immigrants and a host culture form unique fissures in cultural landscapes. These intercultural interactions create bridges across cultural boundaries. The concept of immigration and movement of *

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Of Flights and Flotillas: Assimilation and Race in the Cuban Diaspora

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

Hazard Characteristics and Patterns of Environmental Injustice: Household‐Level Determinants of Environmental Risk in Miami, Florida

Hazard Characteristics and Patterns of Environmental Injustice: Household‐Level Determinants of Environmental Risk in Miami, Florida

Hispanic heterogeneity and environmental injustice: intra-ethnic patterns of exposure to cancer risks from traffic-related air pollution in Miami

Americans create hybrid spaces in Costa Rica: a framework for exploring cultural and linguistic integration

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