ABSTRACT
Cubans’ transnational ties came to have economic worth as émigrés generously shared their new country earnings with family members they had left behind. Although remittance-sending rarely occurred during the Soviet era, the annual infusion of diaspora dollars surged from an estimated $50 million in 1990 to over a billion dollars at the start of the new millennium (see Table 6.1),1 with the US believed to account for 80-90 percent of all remittances that islanders received.2
