Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 No More Mariels: History and the Rafter Crisis; 2 Post-Cold War Cuba: The Special Period, Disaffection, and Escape; 3 Gitmo: From Navy Base to Immigration Detention Center; 4 Coping in the Camps: Toward Individual and Collective Resilience; 5 Creative Expression in the Camps; 6 Resolving A Different Kind of Rafter Crisis; Epilogue; Appendix: The Interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Escape to Miami is an oral history of the experience of detainees from Guantanamo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. Through life history interviews, the book offers the gripping stories of twelve rafters while also providing a study of group-level trauma and coping. Though important as an oral history, the examination of camp culture makes the project an innovative contribution to the field of anthropology as Campisi argues that coping with trauma experiences as a group can create new cultural forms