Centros Varela Papers

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Centros Varela Papers

Date(s)

  • 1994-1996 (Creation)

Extent

6 Boxes

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Scope and content

The materials consist of research papers and tapes used by Marta Pérez to write her Ph.D. thesis: "The Varela Centers: An Immigrant Education Entry Program."  Pérez uses for her dissertation documents found in two Varela Centers in Miami, which offered education to the students coming from Guantánamo Base.  The documents include correspondence, financial records, research notes, reports, students' school work and photographs.

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This collection is currently under review, but remains open for research.

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Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact chc@miami.edu for more information.

Preferred citation: Centros Varela Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.

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  • English

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Gift of Marta Pérez, 1996.

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Archivist's note

The collection-level record created by Beata Bergen, September 2009. Finding aid subjects terms assigned by Ana D. Rodríguez, February 2013. Updated by Juan A. Villanueva, January 2016. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.

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