The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Selected Bibliography

A Canadian journal with an article on the rafters

Journal Articles


Ackerman, Holly, Guest editor. 2005. Special section, The Cuban Balsero Crisis Ten Years Later, Latino Studies. Vol 3:3, November, 372-428.

Ackerman, Holly. 2005. Los balseros: antes y ahora. Encuentro de la cultura cubana 36, no. Spring: 131.

Ackerman, Holly. 1996. The Balsero Phenomenon, 1991-1994. Cuban Studies 26: 169.

Ackerman, Holly. Protesta social en la Cuba actual: Los balseros de 1994. Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana 3, no. Winter 1996/97: 125.

Aja Díaz, Antonio. 2000. La emigración de Cuba en los años noventa. Cuban Studies 30: 1.

Andrews, Thomas C. Et al. 1997. Self-mutilitation and malingering among Cuban migrants detained at Guantánamo Bay. The New England Journal of Medicine. 336 No.17 (Apr 24).

Blanco, Juan A. Emigrantes, desterrados, exiliados e opositores: La excepcionalidad de la política migratória cubana. Encuentro en la red , no. Monday, May 17, 2004: May 23, 2004.

Bonnin, Rodolfo, Chris Brown. 2002. The Cuban Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of the Search for Meaning among Recent Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 24, no. 4: 465.

Brenner, Philip, P. Kornbluh. 1995. Clinton's Cuba Calculus. NACLA Report on the Americas 29, no. 2: 33.

Campisi, Elizabeth. 2005. Guantánamo: Safe haven or traumatic interlude? , The Cuban Balsero Crisis Ten Years Later, Latino Studies. Vol 3:3, November 372.

Colomer, Josep. 2000. Exit, voice, and hostility in Cuba. The International Migration Review 34, no. 2: 423.

del Valle, Patricia, Adriana G. McEachern, and Maria Q. Sabina. 1999. Using Drawings and Writings in a Group Counselling Experience with Cuban Rafter Children, 'Los Balseritos'. Guidance & Counseling 14, no. 4: 20.

Falcoff, M. 1995. The Other Cuba. National Review XLVII, no. 10 (JUN 12): 34-38, 43.

Fowler, Victor. 2002. A Traveler's Album: Variations on Cubanidad. boundary 2 29, no. 3: 105-119. 3407.

Greenhill, Kelly. 2002. Engineered Migration and the Use of Refugees as Political Weapons:: A Case Study of the 1994 Cuban Balseros Crisis. International Migration 40, no. 4: 39.

Henken, Ted. 2005. Balseros, boteros y el bombo: Persistencia de un trato migratorio especial. Encuentro de la cultura cubana 36, no. Spring: 142.

Howe, James C. 1994. Coast Guard rescues of Cuban migrants. North-South: The Magazine of the Americas 4, no. 2 (09//Sep/Oct94): 48.

Hughes, Joyce. 1999. Flight from Cuba. California Western Law Review. Vol 39 (Fall).

Little, Cheryl. 1999. InterGroup Coalitions and Immigration Politics: The Haitian Experience in Florida. University of Miami Law Review 53, no. 4: 717.

Lyons, David. 1994. Asylum rule change decried. National Law Journal 17, no. September 5: A6.

Masud-Piloto, Félix. 2005. Bienvenidos a Guantánamo: Una perspective histórica. Encuentro de la cultura cubana 36, no. Spring: 121.

McCready, Siobhan. 1994. The science of saving rafters. Sea Frontiers 40, no. 6 (12//): 14.

Nackerud, Larry. Alyson Springer and others. The end of Cuban contradiction in U.S. refugee policy. International Migration Review. 33, no. 1: 176.

Palmer, Gary W. 1997. Guarding the Coast: Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations at Sea. Connecticut Law Review 29:1565.

Pérez, Marta. 1997. The Varela Centers: An immigrant education program in response to Cuban Guantánamo Bay crisis. Migration World Magazine 25, No 3:23.

Pitts, W. D. 1995. A Guantánamo Diary - Operation Sea Signal. JFQ , Autumn 114.

Rieff, David. 1995. From exiles to immigrants. Foreign Affairs 74: 76.

Rosendahl, Bruce. 1994. Awaiting Rafters. Sea Frontiers 40, no. 6: 8.

Rosendahl, Bruce R., Thomas N. Lee. 1993. Roulette in the Straits of Florida. Sea Frontiers 39, no. 3 (05//May/Jun93): 8.

Rothe, E.M., H. Castillo and others. 1998. Sintomatología post-traumática en niños y adolescentes balseros Cubanos: Una synopsis de tres estudios. Monografias de Psiquiatria 10, no. 1: 18.

Rothe, Eugenio M., Hector Castillo-Matos, Kim Brinson, John Lewis. 2000. La Odisea de los balseros cubanos. Medico Interamericano 19, no. 12: 578.

Rothe, Eugenio M., Hector Castillo-Matos, Ruben Busquets. 1996. Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Cuban Adolescent Refugees During Camp Confinement. Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry 26.

Rothe,Eugenio M., John Lewis, Hector Castillo-Matos and others. 2002. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Cuban Children and Adolescents After Release From a Refugee Camp. Psychiatric Services 55, no. 8: 970.

Rumbaut, Ruben G. 1976. The Family in Exile: Cuban Expatriates in the United States. The American Journal of Psychiatry 133, no. 4: 395.

Sartori, Maria E. 2001. The Cuban Migration Dilemma: An Examination of the United States' Policy of Temporary Protection in Offshore Safe Havens. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 15, no. 1: 319.

Solomon, B. 1994. Clinton's Fast Break on Cuba. National Journal 26, no. 36: 2044.

Suarez, Virgil. 2000. The Cultura of Leaving: Balsero Dreams. Hopscotch: A Cultural Review 2:2, 2-13.

Turner, Elisa. 1991. Mythic Presence. ARTnews 90, no. 10: 20.

Vanderbush, Walt and Patrick J. Haney. 1999. Policy Toward Cuba in the Clinton Administration. Political Science Quarterly 114, no. 3: 387.

Vicent, Mauricio. 1994. Éxodo y exilio para los balseros desde Cuba, con dolor. Cronica centroamericana 341, no. September: 58.

 

Ephemeral article on the early history of the rafters written in the 1970s by Juan Clark, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at Miami-Dade College. Dr. Clark was the first Social Scientist to call attention to the Cuban raft exodus in the 1960s and 1970s. From the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami.





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