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This article offers key statistics about the 1.3 million Cuban immigrants in the United States. Cubans comprise the largest Caribbean immigrant group in the United States, and for decades have benefitted from uniquely preferential immigration programs.
Eckstein’s new book, Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America (Cambridge University Press, 2022), examines how and why immigrants from Havana were treated differently and how it has affected them—and us.
Over the last decade, U.S. policy on Cuban immigration has reversed itself in dramatic fashion. Cuban immigrants have enjoyed preferential treatment in the United States since the 1960s, and been given a direct and swift path to legal permanent residence.
The increase in Cuban migration has coincided with a surge in arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border from various Latin American and Caribbean countries over the last few years — a political...
The 2021–2023 Cuban migration crisis refers to an ongoing event characterized by a significant surge of Cuban nationals leaving the country, mostly to the United States, due to a combination of factors, including economic hardships and political uncertainties in their homeland.
The new regulations block Cubans at the border, putting the brakes on a route to the United States favored by many: a flight to Nicaragua, which lifted its visa requirement in 2021 on Cubans,...
Cubans have been among the top ten immigrant populations in the United States since 1970, and in 2016 were the seventh largest group. Nearly 1.3 million Cubans lived in the United States in 2016, accounting for roughly 3 percent of the approximately 44 million immigrants overall.
According to the 2017-2021 American Community Survey, [54] there were 1,313,200 immigrants from Cuba in the US, the top counties of residence being: Miami-Dade, Florida – 683,800; Hillsborough, Florida – 61,900; Broward, Florida – 61,400; Palm Beach, Florida – 37,000; Lee, Florida – 29,000; Harris, Texas –- 26,200; Clark, Nevada ...
From 2000 to 2021, the Cuban-origin population increased 92%, growing from 1.2 million to 2.4 million. At the same time, the Cuban foreign-born population living in the U.S. grew by 50%, from 850,000 in 2000 to 1.3 million in 2021.
In a new publication from the Latin American Program, migration experts Guadalupe Correa Cabrera and Elliot Spagat examine the changing patterns of U.S. immigration policy toward Cubans since the 1959 revolution.