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Matthew Casey, “Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode • Jul 11, 2018 • 45m

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey’s, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to...

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