In this panel discussion moderated by CRI Director Jorge Duany, three distinguished scholars examined the social and economic impact of migrants from Haiti, Jamaica, and other West Indian islands to Cuba during the first third of the 20th century. The panel featured the following presenters: • Dr. Matthew Casey, Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi, and author of Empire’s Guest Workers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of U.S. Occupation • Dr. Jorge Giovannetti, Professor of Sociology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and author of Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948 • Dr. Andrea Queeley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Florida International University, and author of Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba
