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Lecture on the Cuban and Puerto Rican Diasporas
Join the UCF Puerto Rico Research Hub for a discussion with Dr. Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute at FIU, to discuss "The Cuban and Puerto Rican Diasporas in Florida." The presentation will examine the main demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, and political patterns of these two groups from the Hispanic Caribbean, highlighting their similarities and differences.
New Article | Is the Workforce Prepared to Provide Services for Latino Family Dementia Caregivers?
CRI Visiting Scholar Elaine Acosta González has coauthored a research article describing the caregiving process for Latino patients with Alzheimer's and related dementias from the perspective of caregivers and service providers to reveal service areas in need of improvement. Providers and caregivers were interviewed through the Miami-Dade County Aging Network.
Interview: The Intertwined Histories of Two Archipelagos
Dr. Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute, discusses his latest coedited book, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture," with Dr. Lillian Guerra.
New Occasional Paper on Ethnicity and Race in Miami
In this essay, Dr. Alejandro Portes and Ryan Bagwell highlight contrasts and disparities in various neighborhoods within Miami-Dade County, focusing on their ethnic and racial composition, as well as their socioeconomic profiles.
CRI in the News | "'There Was Nothing': Ailing Economy Fueling Record Exodus of Cubans"
The US Customs and Border Protection agency said it had registered more than 153,000 irregular entries from Cuba in 2023. Another 67,000 entered legally under a humanitarian parole program, introduced a year ago by President Joe Biden's administration. Together with the 313,506 who left in 2022, this mass movement represents "the largest number of Cuban migrants recorded in two years since the beginning of the post-revolutionary Cuban exodus in 1959," said Jorge Duany, director of CRI.
New Occasional Paper on Cuba's Demographic and Socioeconomic Crisis
In this essay, Drs. Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos Espiñeira document and discuss how changing political and socioeconomic circumstances, together with misguided and ill-conceived economic reform attempts within the politico-economic system governing Cuba, have contributed to often overlooked demographic and social dislocations, emigration being but the most visible consequence.
Call for Applications | Fellowship Program for Threatened Cuban Scholars
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to FIU's Cuban Research Institute to establish a three-year fellowship program for threatened Cuban scholars. The program will help artists, writers, scholars, and journalists from the island to continue their work in safety. It will substantially broaden and deepen current discussions about intellectual freedom—including freedom of thought and expression—in Cuba, the United States, and worldwide.
Final Program | Fourteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies
The final version of the program for our biennial conference on "The Latinization of Florida: Economic, Political, and Cultural Repercussions," to be held on February 15–16, 2024, is available here. To register for the conference, please visit https://14th-CRI-Conference.eventbrite.com
Call for Applications | Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative
We invite applications from pre-candidacy doctoral students at FIU for the in-person Summer Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a one-week intensive training on comparative Latino Humanities Studies research methodologies and theoretical frameworks to be held on July 7–13, 2024. This is an all-expense-paid program with the possibility of a one-year pre-doctoral research fellowship as an extra year of funding to any existing assistantship/fellowship funding commitment.
Preliminary Program | 14th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies
More than 110 scholars and graduate students will present papers in our next interdisciplinary and international meeting on Cuba and its diaspora.