Cuba in the United States

Mariel Cubans in relation to Crime and Race

Mariel Cubans is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: “Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority in the United States. Social scientists are finding that they have to broaden their scope of research to be inclusive of this demographic shift. Contemporary research efforts in the area of race and crime are moving toward revisiting traditional ways of theorizing about race and ethnicity and their centrality to our understanding of crime and criminality. Although past research practices either omitted or subsumed Hispanic identity along a common racial dichotomy, White or Black, contemporary scholars recognize that Hispanics are multiracial, multilingual, and defined by a host of varied experiences, most notably immigration. Cubans are the third largest Hispanic (ethnic) group in the United States. While Cubans have been migrating to the United States for well over 100 years, the Mariel exodus in 1980 was a pivotal experience in that it redefined U.S.”

Presidential Memoranda

Presidential Memoranda: Letter Regarding the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (January 13, 2012):

“Consistent with section 306(c)(2) of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-114) (the “Act”), I hereby determine and report to the Congress that suspension, for 6 months beyond February 1, 2012, of the right to bring an action under title III of the Act is necessary to the national interests of the United States and will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.”

Finding the law: Cuba in the U.S. Code

A collection of general and permanent laws relating to cuba, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines cuba topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.

Resources

Notes and References

1. Entry about Mariel Cubans in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime

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