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Operation Pedro Pan
2022
Overview
At the outset the proposal seemed modest: transfer two hundred
unaccompanied Cuban children to Miami to save them from communism.
The time apart from their parents would be short, only until Fidel
Castro fell from power by the result of U.S. force, Cuban
counterrevolutionary tactics, or a combination of both. Families
would be reunited in a matter of months. A plan was hatched, and it
worked-until it ballooned into something so unwieldy that within
two years the modest proposal erupted into what at the time was the
largest migration of unaccompanied minors to the United States.
Operation Pedro Pan explores the undertaking sponsored by
the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child
welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than
fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States
during the Cold War. Operation Pedro Pan was the colloquial name
for the Unaccompanied Cuban Children's Program, which began under
government largesse in February 1961. Children without immediate
family support in the United States-some 8,300 minors-received
group and foster care through the Catholic Welfare Bureau and other
religious, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations as young
people were dispersed throughout the country. Using personal
interviews and newly unearthed information, Operation Pedro
Pan provides a deeper understanding of how and why the program
was devised. John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco demonstrates how the
seemingly mundane conditions of everyday life can suddenly uproot
civilians from their routines of work, church, and school and
thrust them into historical prominence. The stories told by Pedro
Pans are filled with horror and resilience and contribute to a
refugee memory that still shapes Cuban American politics and
identity today.
Publisher
Potomac Books,Potomac Books, Incorporated
Subject
ISBN
1640125213, 9781640125216
