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T1 “La Conciencia del Gran Miami”: Monsignor Bryan Walsh, cold war Catholicism, and the politics of asylum in multiethnic Miami
A1 Casavantes Bradford, Anita
K1 Miami
K1 Cuban exiles
K1 Cold War
K1 Catholic Church
K1 Cuban Children’s Program
K1 U.S. Immigration Policy
K1 Vatican II
K1 Haitians
K1 Central Americans
K1 Asylum
K1 Arte
K1 Art
K1 Historia
K1 History
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB This article analyzes the relationship between the career of Irish immigrant priest Monsignor Bryan Walsh, Miami’s increasingly activist Catholic Church, and the diverse waves of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants that transformed Miami-Dade County between 1960 and the mid-1990s. In it, I explore the relationshipbetween Monsignor Walsh’s highly visible efforts on behalf of Miami’s Cuban exile community and his less acknowledged advocacy for the city’s later Central American and Haitian asylum seekers. During the first half of the 1960s, Walsh’s perceivedsuccess as administrator of the Cuban Children’s Program established his enduring reputation as a committed “Cold Warrior” and loyal friend to U.S resident Cuban exiles; however, I argue that Monsignor Walsh’s support for the Cuban exile community,while harmonizing with his anti-communist politics, also reflected a deeper spiritual commitment that would lead him by the 1980s to advocacy on behalf of the other displaced Latin American and Caribbean peoples who began seeking refuge in Miami in the 1970s. Adopting an inclusive stance on behalf of the “stranger and the poor”  in Miami-Dade County, I conclude that Monsignor Walsh anticipated the Catholic Church’s new priorities following the Second Vatican Council, even as he offered an early challenge to the Cold War calculus underlying immigration policies that continueto draw arbitrary and self-serving distinctions between those who are welcomed as political exiles and those who are excluded as economic and ostensibly “voluntary” migrants.
PB Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
SN 1889-5611
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24881
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24881
LA spa
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024