ABSTRACT
E. F. Kunz distinguished anticipatory refugee movements from acute ones. The joint policy of the Unites States and Cuban governments turned this initially acute exodus into a coordinated and orderly anticipatory refugee movement. The various waves of Cuban migration brought very different sets of social resources with them— such as their social class, race, education, family, institutional knowledge, and values. The Cuban political exodus holds both distinct waves of migration and "vintages." Nelson Amaro and Alejandro Portes portrayed the different phases of the Cuban political immigration as changing over time with the exiles' principal motivation for their decision to leave. The Cuban revolution's only solution to dissent has been to externalize it. When Cuba ceases to externalize its dissenters and begins to provide political channels to express and incorporate their voice. Cuba's refugees are fundamentally political.
