Elián González Collection

Collection

Elián González Collection

• 1999-2005 (Creation)

2 Boxes

The Elián González Collection consists of copies of newspaper clippings and court orders documenting the case of the Cuban refugee child Elián González.  In 1999 when he was five years old, González was rescued at sea off the Florida coast. His mother had drowned during their passage from Cuba on a raft.  Relatives in Miami took custody of him and fought to keep him in the United States instead of being returned to Cuba with his father. In addition to clippings, the collection also includes memorabilia and photographs.  Clippings have been added to the collection following up on González, who returned to Cuba with his father in April 2000 after a months of court cases and protests in Miami's Cuban-American community.

This collection is open for research.

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: Elián González Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.

• English
• Spanish

Collection created by the Cuban Heritage Collection in 1999.

Material was added in 2000, 2001 and 2005.

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The collection-level record created by Beata Bergen, December 2009. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.

• Refugee children

• González, Elián, 1993- (Subject)

• Clippings (information artifacts)