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GONZALEZ MAESTREY, Rodney Amaury. The Cuban Adjustment Act after the end of the Cold War. Rev Nov Pob [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.27, pp. 1-13. ISSN 1817-4078.

This work is aimed at evaluating determining factors of the permanence of the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) after the end of the Cold War, by analyzing the behavior of different aspects of US domestic policy during successive governments. It was verified that during the Bill Clinton Administration, this law was intertwined with the blockade both normatively and politically, due to its ideological connotation for bilateral relations, despite its incompatibility with US immigration legislation. Conservative sectors led by Cuban- origin politicians, mainly from Florida, contributed to the reaffirmation of its validity during George W. Bush Government. In addition, in order to protect it against being repealed, they played a leading role in conditioning public perceptions on the CAA contradictions, exacerbated after the beginning of the US-Cuba normalization, and as a result of electoral pressures in association with increasing irregular Cuban migration. The ending of the "wet foot-dry foot policy" substantively reduced the number of migrants potentially eligible under the CAA, eroding its rationality. But, absent the objective conditions that led to the aforementioned questioning, there have been no efforts to eliminate it, which reflects a consensus about its being kept.

Palabras clave : Cuban Adjustment Act; U.S. immigration legislation; U.S.-Cuba bilateral relations; Cuban-origin politicians.

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