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Garcia pays particular attention to the role of the Courts and nongovernmental actors in the refugee determination process and in national debates about asylum, border security, and immigration reform.
Major Publications
- "Seeking Refuge: A History of Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada".
She is also the co-editor of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (University of Illinois Press). My first book, Havana USA, examined the migration of Cubans to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. The book examines how these Cold war migrants--the beneficiaries of one of the most generous immigra...
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Bio/Research
The book examines how these Cold war migrants--the beneficiaries of one of the most generous immigration policies and assistance programs in US immigration history--became a powerful economic and political presence in the United States, influencing foreign policy and electoral outcomes, reshaping the cultural landscape of the South, and ultimately reinterpreting what it means to assimilate in U.S.
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Maria Cristina Garcia
Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Cornell University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Caribbean Migration, Ecological Migration, Immigration During the 20th Century, Immigration During the 21st Century, Latin American Migration, North American Migration, Refugee and Asylum
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Legal Advocacy, Media Engagement, Museums and Exhibitions, Public Talks
BIO
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Maria Cristina Garcia, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, is the Howard A.
Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, where she holds appointments in the Department of History and the Latino Studies Program. She is the 2011 recipient of the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award. Duke University Press, 2011.
Maria Cristina Garcia, Cornell University
ProfessorIthaca, New [email protected]:(607) 255-6598
Bio/Research
She serves on the Advisory Board of the forthcoming PBS series “The Latino Americans”, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos. She is the author of The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford University Press); Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada(University of California Press); and Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (University of California Press).
from the University of Texas at Austin.
Wilson Center Project
"Refuge in Post-Cold War America"
Project Summary
Garcia’s project examines how the humanitarian and political challenges of the post-Cold War era have altered definitions of—and policies toward—refugees and asylum seekers in the United States.
Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires, eds. Garcia is a historian of 20th/21st century United States specializing in immigration and refugee history, the Latino populations in the US, and migration in the Americas. Her forthcoming book, under contract at the University of North Carolina Press, examines US responses to climate-driven migration in the Caribbean and Central America.
García received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. She is also completing (with Maddalena Marinari) another co-edited anthology. University of California Press, 2006.
Maria Cristina Garcia
Professional Affiliation
Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Cornell University
Expert Bio
María Cristina García is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History at Cornell University, where she teaches courses on immigration history.
She is the author of Seeking Refuge: Central American migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (2006); Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (1996); and articles and book chapters on refugee migrations and immigrant populations from Latin America. In 2017, Garcia was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians.
AWARDS
Select awards: • Andrew Carnegie Fellow • President’s and Provost’s Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service in Diversity, Cornell University • Kendall S.
Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, Cornell University • Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
INTERVIEWS
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Select op-eds and interviews:
- “How the American Asylum Bureaucracy grew,” Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2018.
- “The Huddled Masses and the Myth of America,” Interview on NPR’s “The Hidden Brain,” October 11, 2016.
- “Why the first Olympic team may not be the last,” The Conversation, June 20, 2016.
- “US Refugee History,” American History TV’s Lectures in History, C-SPAN, December 1, 2015 (aired February 27, 2016 on CSPAN-3)
- “America has never actually welcomed the world’s huddled masses,” Washington Post, November 20, 2015.
- “Immigration,” Bloomberg Radio.
- “The 1965 Hart-Celler Act.” American History TV, C-SPAN, June 2015.
- “A Cuban American’s hopes for US-Cuba relations,” Quartz, March 3, 2015.
- “Don’t miss this golden chance to reform our outdated Cuba policies,” Orlando Sun-Sentinel, February 6, 2015.
- “NPR’s Morning Edition, “Young Migrants may request asylum, but it’s hard to get,” August 14, 2014.
- Interviewee and Consultant on the six-part PBS series on “The Latinos Americans” produced by WETA and the Latino Public Broadcasting Corporation (LPB) which first aired September/October 2013.
- Interviewee and Consultant on “The Florida Dream” (Documentary on 20th century Immigration to Florida), Florida Council for the Humanities, 2007.
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My first book, Havana USA, examined the migration of Cubans to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959.Garcia is Vice-President/President-Elect of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.