Subjects or Citizens
Subtitle: British Caribbean Workers in Cuba, 1900-1960
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813049052
Subjects: Cuba, history; Cuba, social conditions
Description: Cuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations.