Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region

In recent years, the migration of Cuban population has taken new directions; this is mainly due to the migration policy flexibility adopted by the Cuban government and other Latin America governments, such as Ecuador, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, among others, by issu...

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Main Author: Charleene Cortez Sosa
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica 2017-06-01
Series:Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/9132
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description In recent years, the migration of Cuban population has taken new directions; this is mainly due to the migration policy flexibility adopted by the Cuban government and other Latin America governments, such as Ecuador, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, among others, by issuing visas in favorable conditions for the population. Although there are varied reasons to migrate, this population has traditionally migrated motivated by the United States Cuban Adjustment Act which grants administrative advantages for regularization; no other country of the continent offers this privilege. Due to their political exile condition, whoever arrives to the United States will easily have access to legal mechanisms for migrant regularization. Although there has been great work on migration in general terms, little has been addressed on the Cuban migration in the Central American region; possibly this is due to the difficulty to find quantitative information in this regard. The article aims to facilitate the understanding of migration in a context of flexibility and establishment of new relations between the Caribbean and Central America.
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spelling doaj.art-3c1135b494474a058248a9c88715fdb72022-12-21T19:52:34ZspaUniversidad Nacional, Costa RicaRevista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos1659-43042215-42212017-06-010012414410.15359/rldh.extraordinario2016.58656Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America RegionCharleene Cortez Sosa0Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica.In recent years, the migration of Cuban population has taken new directions; this is mainly due to the migration policy flexibility adopted by the Cuban government and other Latin America governments, such as Ecuador, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, among others, by issuing visas in favorable conditions for the population. Although there are varied reasons to migrate, this population has traditionally migrated motivated by the United States Cuban Adjustment Act which grants administrative advantages for regularization; no other country of the continent offers this privilege. Due to their political exile condition, whoever arrives to the United States will easily have access to legal mechanisms for migrant regularization. Although there has been great work on migration in general terms, little has been addressed on the Cuban migration in the Central American region; possibly this is due to the difficulty to find quantitative information in this regard. The article aims to facilitate the understanding of migration in a context of flexibility and establishment of new relations between the Caribbean and Central America.http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/9132MigraciónCubatendencias migratoriasEstados Unidosintegración regionalCentroamérica.
spellingShingle Charleene Cortez Sosa
Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region
Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos
Migración
Cuba
tendencias migratorias
Estados Unidos
integración regional
Centroamérica.
title Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region
title_full Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region
title_fullStr Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region
title_full_unstemmed Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region
title_short Cuban Migration Trends and Their Impact on Central America Region
title_sort cuban migration trends and their impact on central america region
topic Migración
Cuba
tendencias migratorias
Estados Unidos
integración regional
Centroamérica.
url http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/9132
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