{"id":253607,"date":"2022-05-31T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=253607"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:29:25","slug":"cuba-current-migration-crisis-characteristics-and-testimonies-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuba-current-migration-crisis-characteristics-and-testimonies-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba, current migration crisis: characteristics and testimonies (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the winds that come and go, so have been the movements of people who arrive and leave Cuba: people who arrive without wanting to, forced by the context, or wanting it with all their might; others who have left in search of new horizons, driven by privation or forced by different circumstances; and some more who leave and return to leave again… or stay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba the archipelago, the largest island in the Caribbean Sea, has been \u2014 and is \u2014 the epicenter of a continuous human movement that comes and goes. That going\/returning, leaving\/coming, is also a consubstantial part of what we call \u201cCuban identity\u201d with its complexity of beliefs, values, and practices that transcend borders <\/span>to be<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>express themselves<\/span><\/i> beyond \u201cthe circumstance of so many islands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The movement of people from Cuba to other countries, especially to the United States, has been commonplace since the 19th century and, after 1959, a trend driven and shaped by the transformations and internal circumstances of the island, the migratory evolution of the Cubans, and especially by the policies and \u201cmoments\u201d of Cuba-United States relations. Its most intense and extreme manifestation has been the emigration, by unconventional routes, of a significant number of people in very short periods of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, we are experiencing a new migratory wave that, although it may have trends very similar to the one observed in the context of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States (2015-2017), is taking place in a more complex moment. It is no longer just about arriving by land and irregularly in the United States with all that it entails in terms of risk and vulnerability, but the presence of the <\/span>coronavirus<\/b><\/a>, the United States\u2019 restrictive immigration policies for regular departures of Cubans, the worsening of the internal crisis in the country, and the consequences of the geopolitical chess game of both nations where the migratory movement has been a key piece of the different government agendas,<\/span>1<\/sup><\/strong> has generated a difficult and insecure scenario for Cuban migrants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuban migrants who are currently arriving irregularly in the United States come from almost all the Cuban provinces, have diverse socioeconomic origins and are characterized, for the most part, by having family relationships and ties in the United States that decisively support the carrying out of a long and strenuous journey mobilizing economic, social, information resources, and a long etcetera. Although the trajectory to arrive at the U.S. border is very diverse, the elimination of the visa by Nicaragua since the end of 2021 is one of the most relevant elements that has triggered this profuse migratory flow, which has become an \u201cescape valve\u201d in the face of U.S. migratory pressures and the internal crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Central American migratory route: testimony of a Cuban migrant (I)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n