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HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ, Jorge. Cuban Migration or Exile in the United States? Notes for Discussion. Latinoamérica [online]. 2020, n.71, pp.11-35.  Epub 22-Jan-2021. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2020.71.57269.

In specialized academic literature, the issue of Cuban migration and exile that is formed in the United States has been dealt with repeatedly, after the triumph of the Revolution on the Island, in 1959. Sometimes, both phenomena are discussed interchangeably, as if it were the same, and it is assumed to exile today in terms similar to those defined in its initial stage. The article analyzes the migratory process whose result leads to the emergence of said exile, takes into consideration the different factors and conditions that influence that process and explain its evolution to the present. A distinction is made between migration (as demographic displacement or transfer of people and communities established in the United States), and exile (as an essentially political phenomenon). As a premise, it is considered that the Cuban migration dynamics conducive to the emergence of the so-called historical exile cannot be separated from its real development over time, nor in its analytical.

Palavras-chave : Migration; Exile; Cuba-United States Relations; Transition.