Empire's Guestworkers

Matthew Casey is Nina Bell Suggs Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi.

• 1. Making the Haitian-Cuban border and creating temporary migrants; 2. Leaving US occupied Haiti; 3. Living and working in Cuban sugar plantations; 4. Picking coffee and building families in Eastern Cuba; 5. Creating religious communities, serving spirits and decrying sorcery; 6. Mobilizing politically and debating race and empire in Cuban cities; 7. Returning to Haiti and the aftermath of US occupation.

'This exhaustively researched and incisively analyzed study spotlights the Haitians who migrated to Cuba during the first decades of the twentieth century. Revising received assumptions with each chapter, Matthew Casey reveals the heterogeneous identities and experiences of Haitians in Cuba, the extent to which they forged connections with local people and migrants from other parts of the Caribbean, and the role they played in shaping larger social, cultural, economic, and political processes. Empire's Guestworkers is a model of transnational historical scholarship from below.' Kate Ramsey, University of Miami, Coral Gables