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Jeffrey S. Kahn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and author of Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire.
Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.
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