Audio: The Portable Island - Cuban Diaspora Views on Integration and U.S. Policy

May 28, 2009

In collaboration with the World Policy Institute, the AS/COA hosted a conversation with the authors and editors of The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World, which gathers some of the most daring Cuban writers, poets, artists, and thinkers living inside and outside Cuba at a crucial time in history and political change.

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Editors and Authors:

• Lucía M. Suárez, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  
• Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Discussants:

• Anthony DePalma, Writer-in-Residence, Seton Hall University
  
• Christopher Sabatini, Senior Director of Policy, AS/COA; Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly
  
• Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World Policy Institute (Introductory Remarks)
  

About The Portable Island: One of six Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, the impact of departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans in the United States confront their condition as an uprooted people? And how do Cubans at home view the impact of exodus and the possibility of return? How will the Obama administration's softening of US policy on family members' travel and remittances to Cuba affect this dynamic?


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