US foreign policy, 1959-80: impact on refugee flow from Cuba.
Migration from Cuba to the United States since Castro assumed power, and the characterization of those leaving as refugees, have been strongly affected by US foreign policy concerns. During the 1959-62 migration wave, particularly prior to the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cubans were welcome...
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| description | Migration from Cuba to the United States since Castro assumed power, and the characterization of those leaving as refugees, have been strongly affected by US foreign policy concerns. During the 1959-62 migration wave, particularly prior to the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cubans were welcomed as temporary exiles, likely to topple Castro and return home. The second major migration wave began in 1965, in the midst of a US campaign for systematically isolating and economically depriving Cuba and its citizens. When thousands of those citizens left Cuba, primarily to improve their economic circumstances and rejoin family members, they were welcomed as refugees because of the symbolic value of their rejection of Latin America's only communist state. The third migration wave occurred in 1980, after a decade of detente and gradually improving US-Cuban relations. It served no clear US foreign policy ends and was perceived as helping Cuba rid itself of undesirables. Consequently those arriving received little public support. -Author |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4d08e3d8-90da-4d8a-abad-39a932c003ac2022-03-26T15:53:00ZUS foreign policy, 1959-80: impact on refugee flow from Cuba.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4d08e3d8-90da-4d8a-abad-39a932c003acEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1983Scanlan, JLoescher, GMigration from Cuba to the United States since Castro assumed power, and the characterization of those leaving as refugees, have been strongly affected by US foreign policy concerns. During the 1959-62 migration wave, particularly prior to the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cubans were welcomed as temporary exiles, likely to topple Castro and return home. The second major migration wave began in 1965, in the midst of a US campaign for systematically isolating and economically depriving Cuba and its citizens. When thousands of those citizens left Cuba, primarily to improve their economic circumstances and rejoin family members, they were welcomed as refugees because of the symbolic value of their rejection of Latin America's only communist state. The third migration wave occurred in 1980, after a decade of detente and gradually improving US-Cuban relations. It served no clear US foreign policy ends and was perceived as helping Cuba rid itself of undesirables. Consequently those arriving received little public support. -Author |
| spellingShingle | Scanlan, J Loescher, G US foreign policy, 1959-80: impact on refugee flow from Cuba. |
| title | US foreign policy, 1959-80: impact on refugee flow from Cuba. |
| title_full | US foreign policy, 1959-80: impact on refugee flow from Cuba. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | US foreign policy, 1959-80: impact on refugee flow from Cuba. |
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