This dissertation is a study of the events that brought about the systematic, mass exodus of over 14,000 children from Communist Cuba to the United States between December 1960 and October 1962. It also provides an account of the federally-sponsored and privately managed system of providing foster care for around half those children. / The dissertation's chapters include sections on: parental motives for sending their children unaccompanied to the United States; the role of the U.S. government, the Cuban anti-Castro underground, and the Catholic Church in facilitating the exodus; the actions of the private, local Miami agencies that cared for and relocated children in the Cuban Children's Program; and the overall experiences of the children who passed through the programs. / For this dissertation, a variety of sources were utilized including taped interviews with those who took part in facilitating the exodus, individuals who participated in providing care for the children in the United States, and a number of people who were participants in the program. Also used were Congressional hearings, articles, government reports formulated by social workers and other observers of the time, personal letters written by the children while in the program, statistical reports prepared for the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and informational pamphlets put together by Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4920. / Major Professor: William W. Rogers. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77629 |
| Contributors | Triay, Victor Andres., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 257 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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