US Cuban Immigration Policy: Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America. By Susan Eva Eckstein,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 361. $39.99 cloth; $32.00 e-book.

Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America. By Susan Eva Eckstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 361. $39.99 cloth; $32.00 e-book.

In January 2017, in one of his last acts in office, President Barack Obama brought to an end a series of measures granting Cuban migrants privileged status relative to other would-be entrants to the United States. Free from needing the votes of Cuban Americans and committed to a wider effort to shake up US policy toward Cuba, Obama's reform to immigration policy altered the American government's decades-long treatment of Cuban migrants. In this book, Susan Eva Eckstein provides a timely and authoritative look at Cubans’ privileged place in US immigration policy.

Author of the earlier The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the US and Their Homeland (New York: Routledge, 2009), Eckstein draws on archival records, interviews, government reports, and survey data and deftly moves...