27/03/2018 - The Implications of the End of Special Treatment
The Iberoamerican Centre of Metropolitan University Prague cordially invites you to an open lecture delivered by Dr. Theo Henken, City University of New York, entitled The Implications of the End of Special Treatment: Cuban Immigration to the United States and the Normalization of Bilateral Relations in the Post-Castro/Post-Obama Era.What are the still-unfolding implications both in Cuba and among the Cuban diaspora in the United States of the end of the so called wet foot/dry foot policy for Cuban immigrants there?
WHEN: Tuesday 27 March 2018, 9:00–10:30
WHERE: MUP Prague-Strašnice building, Dubečská 900/10, room 206
Prof. Henken is professor of Sociology at City University of New York. His newest book Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape (2015) was co-authored with Canadian economist Archibald R. M. Ritter and published in 2015. The open lecture is followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Kateřina Březinová, the head of Iberoamerican Centre at MUP.
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