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19 Int'l Migration Rev. 4 (1985)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv19 and id is 1 raw text is: Cuba's Exiles: Portrait of a Refugee Migration Silvia Pedraza-Bailey Department of Sociology, Washington University This article provides a portrait of Cuba's exiles that encompasses all their waves of migration, while utilizing the Cuban exodus to shed light on the broader phenomenon of refugee migration. It argues that to understand the changing social characteristics of the exiles over twenty years of migration, we need to understand the changing phases of the Cuban revolution. Utilizing the Cuban exodus as data, the article uses Egon F. Kunz's (1973; 1981) theoretical framework for refugee migration to shed light on the refugees' varying experiences, while also using the actual Cuban refugee experience to react to Kunz's abstract model. In the sixteen years from 1960 to 1976, the United States admitted over 750,000 Cuban refugees (Casal, 1979). In the Spring of 1980, 125,000 more arrived, whose immigration status remains one of entrants. Twenty years of political migration that brought close to a million persons to American soil harbor distinct waves of immigrants, as well as distinct refugee vintages, alike only in their final rejection of Cuba. Drawing upon earlier analyses of the Cuban exiles, the purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive portrait of the Cuban exiles that encompasses all their different waves of migration, while also utilizing the Cuban exodus to shed light on the broader phenomenon of refugee migration. The underlying argument is that to understand the changing characteristics of the exiles over time, we need to pay attention to the changing phases of the Cuban revolution. As Peter I. Rose (1981:11) underlined, refugees do not live in a vacuum. They are part of an intricate sociopolitical web that must be seen as the background against which any portrait of their travails must be painted and any dissection of their innermost thoughts and feelings must be pinned. It is the changing phases of the Cuban revolution that account for the varying characteristics of the immigrants, for the development of what E. F. Kunz called distinct vintages, distinct in character, background, and avowed political faith (Kunz, 1973:137). 4 IMR Volume xviv, No. 1

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