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Triscornia Migratory Camp

Empire, Public Health, and Exclusion in Cuba’s Ellis Island

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Triscornia Migratory Camp

Empire, Public Health, and Exclusion in Cuba’s Ellis Island

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Triscornia Migratory Camp: Empire, Public Health, and Exclusion in Cuba’s Ellis Island is a pioneering work that explores Triscornia, Havana’s immigration processing center. Despite being overlooked, Triscornia predates most immigration detention centers in the U.S., except for Ellis Island. Both Ellis Island’s current building and Triscornia opened in the same year – 1900. Built during the U.S. first military occupation of Cuba, it represented the cutting-edge of modern nation-building and public health infrastructure. This volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Triscornia’s importance by uniting scholars from literature, history, critical theory, and anthropology. This book illuminates the significance of migratory policy in the early Cuban Republic and its neocolonial relationship with the United States. By focusing on Triscornia, the contributors engage broader scholarly discussions on migration and border control, imperialism and nation-building, memory, public health, race, gender, class, and national identity.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Ahmed Correa Alvarez and John Ermer
Part One: People on the move: Imperial Design and National Control
Chapter One: The Immigration Station at Triscornia: the Havana Camp/Lazaretto, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio
Chapter Two: Triscornia, Epidemic Anxieties and the Reconfiguration of Border, Ahmed Correa Alvarez
Chapter Three: “Diseased Alien:” Triscornia, Modernity, and the Limits of Belonging Among Syrians in the Early Cuban Republic, John Ermer
Chapter Four: Diplomats, Officials, and Migrants: Negotiating Chinese Exclusion in the Early Cuban Republic, Kent Weber
Part Two: Geographies of Memory
Chapter Five: Searching for Triscornia: My Grandmother’s Journey, Ruth Behar
Chapter Six: Migration, Gender and Sexuality Control. A Conversation on Triscornia, Julio César González Pagés
Conclusion: Triscornia: Between US Empire and the Cuban Nation, Elliott Young
About the Contributors

Product details

Published Dec 15 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 200
ISBN 9781666930504
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Ahmed Correa Alvarez

Anthology Editor

John Ermer

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