ABSTRACT

The signing of a new agreement suggested the possibility of regulating the legal migratory flow of Cubans to the United States and trying to stop illegal emigration. To better understand the dynamic requires analyzing international migration as a variable in the context of Cuban demographic tendencies. US immigration policy with respect to Cuba openly declares offers of political asylum. With respect to family reunification and the supposed preference offered by the new US immigration measures for Cubans, these actions would not necessarily have a dissuasive effect on the approximately 55 percent of potential illegal emigrants who have no family in the United States. Cuban migration policy has passed through varying eras. The sections devoted to other forms of US aggression against Cuba, such as the “Denial of Revenue to the Regime” and the “Regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control” were also connected in one way or another to aspects of the migration issue.