Susan Eckstein
Professor, International Relations and Sociology, Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
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Susan Eckstein’s main focus is on Latin America. She has written most extensively on Mexico, Cuba, and Bolivia. Currently, she is working on immigration and its impact across borders.
Eckstein is the author of four books, most recently of The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland, and editor/co-editor of another four books in English (most recently of How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands [co-authored]). She has also published two books in Spanish and authored about seven dozen articles, winning several awards for her publications. She has held grants and fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for World Order, a Mellon-MIT grant, the Ford Foundation, and the Tinker Foundation. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association and of the New England Council on Latin America; held numerous other positions in those two societies as well as in the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society; and served on the editorial boards of about a dozen journals and press editorial boards.
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Cubans Now Face Same Deportation Risk as Other Immigrants
June 15, 2017
Associated Press quoting Susan Eckstein, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Tens of thousands of Cubans living in the U.S. are adapting to a harsh new reality: After enjoying decades of favored status dating back to the Cold War, many of them now face the same deportation risks […]
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10 things to know about Cuba’s special immigration benefit
November 13, 2015
Houston Chronicle Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and billionaire entrepreneur Donald Trump are in a dead tie for the Republican nomination in Texas, and both this week reiterated their enforcement position on immigration… Expert quote: “In 1994, President Bill Clinton gave Cubans yet another […]
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The Mexico City earthquake, 30 years on: have the lessons been forgotten?
September 18, 2015
The Guardian Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies The devastation of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake was swift. In just over a minute – in the early hours of 19 September, while the city was still asleep – 100,000 houses crumbled, 5,000 people died and roughly five million residents […]
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Experts Media Alert – Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba and the U.S.
August 17, 2015
From Sept. 19-27, Pope Francis is scheduled for an historic visit to both Cuba and the United States. The pope‘s voyage to Cuba will reinforce the newly formed ties between the U.S. and Cuba. U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro credited Pope Francis with helping broker recent diplomatic talks between the two nations. While in the U.S., Pope Francis will address Congress […]
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Cuban migration to US rises amid historic thaw in relations
August 14, 2015
Al Jazeera America Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies The lines outside the former Swiss-supervised U.S. interests section in Havana were notoriously long for decades, with Cubans applying for a legal path to what they hoped would be a better life… View full article quoting expert Susan Eckstein
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New Wave of Cubans Sails for Florida Since Obama’s Deal
January 6, 2015
Newsmax Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences The number of Cubans setting sail on rickety boats for political asylum in America has increased more than 100 percent since President Barack Obama normalized relations with the Castro government last month, the U.S. Coast Guard reported this week… Expert quote: “Cubans enjoy unique immigration privileges that […]
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Time to end special privileges for Cuban immigrants
January 6, 2015
Reuters “The Great Debate Blog” By Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences President Barack Obama has taken initial steps toward overhauling the broken U.S. immigration system and failed Cuba policy. It is also time to bring Washington’s Cuban immigration policy in line with other foreign-born people. Cubans enjoy unique immigration privileges that are no […]
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How American immigrants change the rest of the world
July 28, 2013
Boston Globe (subscription required) Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences America’s long-running argument about immigration has reached a boil this summer, and as usual the political discussion has focused on domestic issues, including border security, the impact of immigrants on American jobs, and the proper way to deal with people who have come to […]
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Nicolas Maduro, bus driver turned vice president, could succeed Hugo Chavez
December 11, 2012
Washington Post Susan Eckstein, College of Arts & Sciences He once drove a bus across the gritty streets of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, and later rose through the ranks of the trade union movement… View article
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