The latest edition of the
International Journal of Cuban Studies is now available to read for free and open access.
In this special edition we are delighted to present three articles by francophone Cuba scholars, as a small indication of a larger body of work that is beyond that which the journal regularly draws. (Click on the authors' names to go directly to their articles).
The first, by
Rémy Herrera, a scholar at the CNRS and University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, starts a two-part economic history of Cuba highlighting three themes: the Island’s colonial status, first to Spain and then to the US, the difference in its economy before and after its thorough domination by sugar, and the role of slavery in both the pre-sugar and sugar eras.
In the second article,
Salim Lamrani, from the University of Reunion, provides a lengthy consideration of migration, considering both before and after the Revolution, comparing it with the migratory flows from other countries of the region.
Finally,
Violaine Jolivet and Mateo Alba Carmichael, who work at the University of Montreal, consider the process of the commodification of housing in Havana after 2011.
In addition, there are articles by two US scholars. In the first,
Mark Ginsburg, of the University of Maryland – College Park, discusses Cuba’s new constitution from the perspective of how consistent it is with the ideas of twenty-first-century socialism. Then
H. Michael Erisman, a scholar at Indiana State University, uses a case study to consider the question: what would it take to improve overall US–Cuba relations through the improvement of US–Cuba trade relations?
