"THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CUBAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY"

Guillermo Grenier is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology who has served as a lead investigator of the FIU Cuba Poll since 1991. His research interests include Cuban American political and labor issues, and interethnic relations in Miami. The co-author of The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States (Allyn & Bacon 2003), he has contributed several essays on Cuban American political culture to edited collections. He received both a master's degree and a doctorate degree in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque in 1979 and 1985.

"The Establishment of the Cuban American Community" is a brief overview of the community's origins and migration waves. For a more complete analysis of the Cuban American experience, please see The Legacy of Exile.