Abstract

SOROLLA FERNANDEZ, Ileana  and  SIERRA SOSA, Ligia Aurora. Interconnections and senses among Cuban migrants in the Yucatan Peninsula and their families in Havana, Cuba. Estudios del Desarrollo Social [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.3 ISSN 2308-0132.

The present work investigates the interconnections between the Cuban migrants in the Yucatan Peninsula and their relatives in Havana, and the grounds on which their stay in Mexico is based on. Cuban migration is understood as a sustained and bidirectional process of mobility and nexuses, which maintain, at least, two geographical spaces separated by international borders, interconnected. The links are based on greater access to new communication technologies in Cuba, on regular visits and on salary, productive and social remittances. A reconfiguration of the family is interpreted, involving the extended family with ties of solidarity and support by affinity and choice. They have also fostered a resignification of migration. The migratory experience is seen as an opportunity for better working horizons and cultural enjoyments, but also as a decision of life in the pursuit of well-being, which acquires a sense of free choice and goes beyond the traditional economic-material dimension, political affiliations or ideological attachments.

Keywords : migration; transnationalism; family..

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