book chapter
How the enclave was built
City on the edge : the transformation of Miami • Berkeley • Published In 1993 • Pages: 123-149, 241-244
By: Portes, Alejandro, Stepick, Alex.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is essentially a study of Cuban American economic development in Miami, Florida following the major influx of Cuban refugees to the United States during the 1960s to 1980s.The author highlights several Cuban entrepreneural enterprises in the Miami area, and discusses their origins, managerial personnel, sources of investment capital, growth, and labor policies. There is also some discussion in this work on the attitudes of the Cuban exiles toward the Castro government, and on Cuban American right-wing politics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Mercantile business
- Individual enterprise
- Political movements
- Hospitals and clinics
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cuban Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960s-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Miami, Florida, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92039417
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuban Americans