ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the steps and strategies involved in South-North political migration, and traces the prevailing routes followed by refugees from Third World revolutions. It investigates the changing composition of post-revolution transnational population flows both in terms of sending-country departure intervals (vintages) and in terms of receiving-country arrival intervals (waves). The transnational migration of political exiles encompasses a series of potential steps. The number of moves involved in refugee migration can be many or few. Secondary-migration outcomes are likely to be affected by the dynamics of immediate- and extended-family reunification, the presence or absence of social- and cultural-support systems, access to acceptable employment, and the availability of appropriate housing. Although most Indochinese refugees also have resettled in the USA, the transit process has become progressively longer, less direct, and more difficult. Migration from Iran and Ethiopia to the United States has involved a much smaller proportion of the total refugee population than in the Cuban and Indochinese situations.
