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Domů jen s jawou! Kubánci si v normalizačním Československu mohli splnit svůj „americký sen“
Back Home Only with a Jawa! The Cubans Could Fulfil Their ‘American Dream’ in Normalisation-period Czechoslovakia

Author(s): Hana Bortlová-Vondráková
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia;foreign workers;1978-1989;Cuba;gastarbeiters;integration;Roma people;

Summary/Abstract: More than 20 thousand Cubans came to work in Czechoslovakia in 1978–1989. The official media never mentioned them, aware that hiring foreign workers was not very popular. Cohabitation with the locals led to frictions but also to some remarkable interactions, for instance, the integration of some Cubans into the Roma community.

  • Issue Year: XV/2021
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 46-58
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Czech
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