Structuring Liminality: Theorizing the Creation and Maintenance of the Cuban Exile Identity

In this article, we examine the exilic experience of the Cuban-American community in South Florida through the dual concepts of structure and liminality. We postulate that in the case of this exilic diaspora, specific structures arose to render liminality a persistent element of the Cuban-American identity. The liminal, rather than being a temporal transitory stage, becomes an integral part of the group identity. This paper theorizes and recasts the Cuban-American exile experience in Miami as explicable not only as the story of successful economic and political incorporation, although the literature certainly emphasizes this interpretation, but one consisting of permanent liminality institutionalized by structural components of the exiled diaspora. We argue that the story of exemplary incorporation so prevalent in the academic literature is a result of structured liminality. We apply Turner\u27s conceptualization to the creation and maintenance of the Cuban-American Exile Identity (Grenier and Perez, 2003). While testing the theoretical postulates is beyond the scope of this article, we interpret previous research through our new theoretical lens

The 1991 FIU Cuba Poll- Views on Policy Options toward Cuba Held by Cuban-American Residents of Dade County, Florida

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The 2000 FIU Cuba Poll

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1997 FIU Cuba Poll

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The 1995 FIU Cuba Poll: Views on Policy Options Toward Cuba Held by Cuban-American Residents of Dade County, Florida and Union City, New Jersey

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Cuba Poll 2014 : Full Survey Results

The full survey results include the full list of questions and tables with results for each question.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cuba_poll/1004/thumbnail.jp

2008 Cuba/US Transition Poll

Summary of results from the 2008 Cuba Poll.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cuba_poll/1002/thumbnail.jp

The 1993 FIU Cuba Poll

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2011 Cuba Poll

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The Visual Orbit of the 1.1-day Spectroscopic Binary \sigma^2 Coronae Borealis from Interferometry at the CHARA Array

We present an updated spectroscopic orbit and a new visual orbit for the double-lined spectroscopic binary \sigma^2 Coronae Borealis based on radial velocity measurements at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts and interferometric visibility measurements at the CHARA Array on Mount Wilson. \sigma^2 CrB is composed of two Sun-like stars of roughly equal mass in a circularized orbit with a period of 1.14 days. The long baselines of the CHARA Array have allowed us to resolve the visual orbit for this pair, the shortest period binary yet resolved interferometrically, enabling us to determine component masses of 1.137 \pm 0.037 M_sun and 1.090 \pm 0.036 M_sun. We have also estimated absolute V-band magnitudes of MV (primary) = 4.35 \pm 0.02 and MV(secondary) = 4.74 \pm 0.02. A comparison with stellar evolution models indicates a relatively young age of 1-3 Gyr, consistent with the high Li abundance measured previously. This pair is the central component of a quintuple system, along with another similar-mass star, \sigma^1 CrB, in a ~ 730-year visual orbit, and a distant M-dwarf binary, \sigma CrB C, at a projected separation of ~ 10 arcmin. We also present differential proper motion evidence to show that components C & D (ADS 9979C & D) listed for this system in the Washington Double Star Catalog are optical alignments that are not gravitationally bound to the \sigma CrB system.Comment: 40 pages, 14 figures. Accepted by Ap