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Operation Pedro Pan

Autor: Gronbeck-tedesco John A. Gronbeck-tedesco

Número de Páginas: 351

At the outset the proposal seemed modest: transfer two hundred unaccompanied Cuban children to Miami to save them from communism. The time apart from their parents would be short, only until Fidel Castro fell from power by the result of U.S. force, Cuban counterrevolutionary tactics, or a combination of both. Families would be reunited in a matter of months. A plan was hatched, and it worked--until it ballooned into something so unwieldy that within two years the modest proposal erupted into what at the time was the largest migration of unaccompanied minors to the United States. Operation Pedro Pan explores the undertaking sponsored by the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War. Operation Pedro Pan was the colloquial name for the Unaccompanied Cuban Children's Program, which began under government largesse in February 1961. Children without immediate family support in the United States--some 8,300 minors--received group and foster care through the Catholic Welfare Bureau and other religious, governmental, and...

Operation Pedro Pan

Autor: John A. Gronbeck-tedesco

Número de Páginas: 281

At the outset the proposal seemed modest: transfer two hundred unaccompanied Cuban children to Miami to save them from communism. The time apart from their parents would be short, only until Fidel Castro fell from power by the result of U.S. force, Cuban counterrevolutionary tactics, or a combination of both. Families would be reunited in a matter of months. A plan was hatched, and it worked—until it ballooned into something so unwieldy that within two years the modest proposal erupted into what at the time was the largest migration of unaccompanied minors to the United States. Operation Pedro Pan explores the undertaking sponsored by the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War. Operation Pedro Pan was the colloquial name for the Unaccompanied Cuban Children’s Program, which began under government largesse in February 1961. Children without immediate family support in the United States—some 8,300 minors—received group and foster care through the Catholic Welfare Bureau and other religious, governmental, and...

Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children

Autor: Deborah Shnookal

Número de Páginas: 273

This in-depth examination of one of the most controversial episodes in U.S.-Cuba relations sheds new light on the program that airlifted 14,000 unaccompanied children to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. Operation Pedro Pan is often remembered within the U.S. as an urgent “rescue” mission, but Deborah Shnookal points out that a multitude of complex factors drove the exodus, including Cold War propaganda and the Catholic Church’s opposition to the island’s new government.  Shnookal illustrates how and why Cold War scare tactics were so effective in setting the airlift in motion, focusing on their context: the rapid and profound social changes unleashed by the 1959 Revolution, including the mobilization of 100,000 Cuban teenagers in the 1961 national literacy campaign. Other reforms made by the revolutionary government affected women, education, religious schools, and relations within the family and between the races. Shnookal exposes how, in its effort to undermine support for the revolution, the U.S. government manipulated the aspirations and insecurities of more affluent Cubans. She traces the parallel stories of the young “Pedro Pans”...

Fleeing Castro

Autor: Victor Andres Triay

Número de Páginas: 133

"The first complete and comprehensive work on these important, unique programs. . . . An interesting, humane, yet tragic component of the post-1959 Cuban experience and the Cold War in general."--Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College "The ordeal began [for the children] when their parents told them they had to travel alone and that they had to keep the upcoming trip a secret. The most powerful parts of the book are their accounts. . . . Through interviews with many of the participants—the children and their parents, the coordinators of the airlift, those in the underground in Cuba and the Catholic sponsors in the United States—Triay attempts to answer many of the questions the exodus raised."--Miami Herald A stirring account of the covert effort to smuggle Cuban children into the United States in the aftermath of Fidel Castro's rise to power, Fleeing Castro brings to light the humanitarian program designed to care for the children once they arrived and the hardship and suffering endured by the families who took part in Operation Pedro Pan. From late 1960 until the October 1962 missile crisis, 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban children left their homeland, the small island suddenly at ...

Diplomacy Meets Migration

Autor: Hideaki Kami

Número de Páginas: 377

Diplomacy Meets Migration examines diplomacy, migration, and the history of US relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Hideaki Kami draws on declassified US and Cuban diplomatic sources, as well as Miami-Cuban lobby records, to challenge traditional interpretations that mainly focus on the two national capitals, Washington and Havana. By incorporating Miami into the story of foreign affairs, Kami assesses the intersection between migration and diplomacy, and considers how migration emerged as a critical issue that shaped the dynamism of US relations with Cuba. Kami demonstrates that the US government reformulated its Cuban policy in response to Fidel Castro's institutionalization of power, while simultaneously trying to build a new relationship with the Miami Cuban community, a new, politically mobilized constituency within US society. He shows how both migration control and migrant politics became important components of US foreign policy, which in turn influenced Cuban policy toward the United States.

From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants

Autor: Felix Roberto Masud-piloto

Número de Páginas: 200

Cuban migration to the United States has altered the face of American politics and demographics. From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants, the only scholarly study available of this Cuban migration, analyzes its political dynamics and unique character. In this revised and expanded edition of his 1988 book With Open Arms, Masud-Piloto here extends the discussion with an examination of the Bush and Clinton administrations' responses to recent events in Cuba. Masud-Piloto, an expert on Cuban and Caribbean migrations and a Cuban emigre himself, draws on previously unavailable documents, as well as his first-hand experience, to describe American attempts to destabilize the Castro government by draining Cuba of vitally needed teachers, physicians, and technicians, and to embarrass the revolution by exposing the flight of Cuba's citizens to a "free" country. Masud-Piloto's examination of the Haitian and Central American refugee crises of the past two decades provides a useful comparative perspective.

"Perdido a la Grande Babylon"

Autor: Chrisje Margaretha Aardening

Número de Páginas: 256

Cuba Briefing Paper Series

Número de Páginas: 160

With Open Arms

Autor: Felix Roberto Masud-piloto

Número de Páginas: 174

Book Review Digest

Número de Páginas: 2202

The Lost Apple

Autor: María De Los Angeles Torres

Número de Páginas: 352

From 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami. Maria de los Angeles Torres was six years old when she took part in this massive airlift -- now known as Operation Pedro Pan -- in which terrified parents shipped their children to the United States. Torres examines the event from both a historical and a personal perspective. Called a "relentless investigator of history" (Miami Herald), she forces declassification of key documents, challenging us all finally to come to terms with this pivotal yet largely neglected exodus. Book jacket.

Choice

Número de Páginas: 808

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Autor: Anna Lorraine Guthrie , Bertha Tannehill , Neltje Marie Tannehill Shimer

Número de Páginas: 2208

An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.

Operation Pedro Pan

Autor: Yvonne Conde

Número de Páginas: 284

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Leaving Cuba

Autor: Kathlyn Gay

Número de Páginas: 156

Considers the various ways children have escaped from Communist Cuba and found refuge in the United States through different plans set up to help them, from the early 1960s to today.

Search for Their Roots

Autor: Anna Jordan , Emerson College

Número de Páginas: 46

"Between Dec. 1960 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, more than 14,000 Cuban children were brought from Cuba to the United States. Dubbed Operation Pedro Pan, this underground movement sought to save children from Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba." -- abstract.

Operation Pedro Pan

Autor: Yvonne M. Conde

Número de Páginas: 0

Yvonne Conde presents poignant stories from individuals who left Cuba between 1960 and 1962 in one of the world's largest political exoduses of children.

The Flight from Never-never Land

Autor: Victor Andres Triay

Número de Páginas: 514

Operation Pedro Pan

Autor: Richard H. Wall (jr.)

Número de Páginas: 206

Abstract: In the early 1960s after the overthrow of Fulgencia Batista, thousands of children were set from Cuba to the United States by their parents fearing what might happen to them under the regime of Fidel Castro. Operation Pedro Pan was initially created by the Catholic Welfare Bureau as a conduit to assist in the placement of these children; but it became much more. This thesis examines the origins of Operation Pedro Pan, the implementation of the program and the outcomes of some of the children who were the Children of Pedro Pan. This examination will include a look at the fears of the parents of the Pedro Pan children, the environment that existed that created the perceived need for parents to send their children away, and the reflections on the outcome of their decision by both parents, Operation Pedro Pan operatives, and the children themselves.

OPERATION PEDRO PAN

Autor: Josefina Leyva

Número de Páginas: 0

Operation Peter Pan was a clandestine exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962.