A DIVIDED COMMUNITY The Cuban exile is another country; Miami is its capital. As is well known, the Cuban exodus to the US has taken place over the course of several major waves. The First Wave: Cuba’s Elite Nelson Amaro and Alejandro Portes (1972) portrayed the different phases of the Cuban migration as changing over […]
Cuba and Venezuela: Revolution and Reform
Beginning in 1789, France produced the most significant of the social revolutions of the 18th century. Both the French and the American revolutions issued from the Enlightenment; swept away traditional systems; followed similar stages, moving from moderate to radical before a final conservative swing; and helped set in motion modern constitutional government, along with the […]
Germany’s Unification: Implications for Cuba
This intellectual effort adds to the already long list of efforts to draw the lessons of various transitions for Cuba, most of which have been published by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami and others at previous conferences of the Association for the Study of the Cuban […]
Transition and Emigration: Political Generations in Cuba
Ever since Fidel Castro became seriously ill and ceded power to his brother Raúl in July 2006, Cubans who live outside the island have been hoping and expecting a transition to democracy to take place in the island. I myself see the transfer of power as the first step in such a transition (see Sibaja […]
Assimilation or Transnationalism? Conceptual Models of the Immigrant Experience in America
Notes1 Americans are immigrants—people whose origins are various but whose destinies made them American. Immigration—voluntary or involuntary—is what created all multiracial and multicultural nations. The United States is a prime example. Sometimes the migrants moved freely from the area of origin to the area of destination. Such was the experience of the European immigrants. Sometimes […]