The Cuban Refugee Criminal
Media Reporting and the Production of a Popular Image
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22326355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jillian Marie Jacklin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cuban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-3461 • E-ISSN: 1756-347X |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.1.0061 |
| OpenAlex | W2960442647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
On 15 April 1980, Fidel Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbour, prompting 125,000 people to depart for the United States in search of asylum. Unlike those who emigrated from the island thirty years earlier, these refugees did not encounter empathy from the American public. Rather, Marielitos encountered hostility, as they found themselves scattered in detention centres around the United States. As refugee camps sprang up in small communities in the US South and Midwest, sensationalised accounts of crimes committed by the migrants shaped negative local perspectives of Cubans. This article complicates the legitimacy of the image of the refugee criminal, however, by describing the context within which Marielitos travelled to remote areas in the US, specifically in west-central Wisconsin. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how media reporting on the Mariel boatlift, along with the contentious socioeconomic climate that Cuban refugees encountered while detained in rural America, influenced the popular representation of their criminality
Criminology · Empathy · Geography · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Population · Refugee · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Terrorism · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Cuban History and Society · Demography · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |