Cuban immigration in the United States

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The United States of America has always been an immigration Land. 301 Million Whites, Blacks, Latinos and Asians, subdivided in different ethnic groups are living together.

Because of the all-known complicated relationship between Cuba and America, one of the most interesting immigration is the Cuban immigration. Approximately 1,000,000 Cubans have migrated to the United States. These migrants represent all ethnic groups, regions and social classes of Cuba. The majority of them arrived after the communist revolution of Fidel Castro. The reasons for this immigration aren't just political. A lot of Cubans migrated for economic or familial reasons.

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[...] From January to September Cuban immigrated in the United States. If in the 1960s their motivations were mostly political, by the 1970s they become clearly economical. With the 1980 Refugee Act the status of Cuban immigrants changed. They have to submit to the same procedure as all other non refugees. The way Americans accepted Cubans can be analyzed through two different periods, from 1959 to 1980, and after the massive immigration from Mariel. In first two decades after the Cuban revolution, the national view of Cuban-Americans was generally positive. [...]

[...] It stopped with the stricter immigration rules of the 1980 Refugee Act. Nowadays the image of Cuban-Americans is quite better than the image of other minorities. So even if relations between Cuba and America stay tense, for example about the billboard affair with the US interests section in Havana, Cuban- Americans are well accepted in the United States. The reason for this situation is that, in public perception, Cuban-Americans are political refugees. As worse the relation between Cuba and America, as better the image of the most ardent anti-castrist, the Cuban-Americans, in public opinion. [...]

[...] Approximately 1,000,000 Cubans have migrated to the United States. These migrants represent all ethnic groups, regions and social classes of Cuba. The majority of them arrived after the communist revolution of Fidel Castro. The reasons for this immigration aren't just political. A lot of Cubans migrated for economic or familial reasons. But even if the relationship between the United States and Cuba are quite tense, the US still have an embargo against the island, and even if this was a massive immigration, the Cubans don't met the same fate as other groups of immigrants. [...]

[...] Americans hate Cuba and like Cubans, especially if they're living in the United States. But now that Fidel Castro's illness is known and that his brother Raoul is at power, the future of Cuban immigration is uncertain. A lot of political journalists think that Raoul Castro will liberalize the country, like the ex-USSR states did it in the 1990s. What influence will that have on the Cuban-American community? It is possible that a massive come back movement start, Cuban-Americans are perhaps more Cuban than real Cubans, because the communist regime made a policy against the traditional culture. [...]

[...] From now on the immigrants were rather middle- class entrepreneurs. Interesting material about the motives of these immigrants can be found in the study conducted by Fagen, Brody and O'Leary.[4]For 20% of the migrants fear of imprisonment was the most significant factor in their decision indicated that it was harassment and persecution said they generally disagreed with the communist policy and only explains their left because of a loss of job or income. So this second phase of immigration was really a political immigration, more than an economic one. [...]