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Introduction -- "Give us a ship" : The Vietnamese Repatriate Movement on Guam, 1975 -- To "shoot" or to "shoo" : Vietnamese in Malaysia, 1975-1979 -- A model camp -- Hong Kong and "Voluntary repatriation," 1980-1989 -- Competing projects : humanitarianism and human rights in Hong Kong, 1989-1997 -- Palawan and diasporic imaginaries, 1996-2005 -- Epilogue.

In Cuba and the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos, Louis A. Pérez Jr. adds to his impressive oeuvre of work on US-Cuba relations in the twentieth century. With his practiced command over the archival material, Pérez examines the power of metaphor in defining the United States' imperial relationship with Cuba. Through a range of textual and visual sources, Pérez maps out the changing metaphors US actors used to depict "Cuba" from the early nineteenth century through the years following the Cuban revolution. Pérez asserts, "metaphors have consequences" (14), and he aptly argues how US representations of Cuba resulted in policies based on fictions and "figment[s] of their [US actors] own imagination" (23). Thus, this is not a book about Cuba, but rather it is a book about how North American ideas of Cuba enabled the United States to gain its "sense of self-righteous hubris," and "destiny" as it became an imperial power in the twentieth century (10).

The following study explores how people worked, traveled, & sought refuge between Jamaica & Cuba during the years immediately following the Cuban Revolution & decolonization in Jamaica. The Cold War redefined the nature of travel between Jamaica & Cuba: the Jamaican community in Cuba gained new significance for the Jamaican government, thousands of Cuban exiles poured into Jamaica, & Jamaican leftists sought adventure & inspiration in Cuba. Simultaneously, the Cold War made any movement between communist Cuba & the recently independent Jamaica a matter of government concern, & the US actively intervened & set concrete limits on Jamaica's nascent independence & foreign policy. The extent to which the state controlled migration & travel between Jamaica & Cuba demonstrates the scope & limits of the Cold War's power over the Jamaican government & its nationals in this era. Adapted from the source document.