The Cuban exodus is estimated to consist of around 12 percent of the countryspopulation. It harbors several distinct waves of migrants alike only in theirfinal ... » 

The Cuban exodus is estimated to consist of around 12 percent of the countryspopulation. It harbors several distinct waves of migrants alike only in theirfinal rejection of Cuba. Silvia Pedraza links the revolution and exodus notonly as cause and consequence but also as profoundly social and human processesthat were not only political and economic but also cognitive and emotive.Ironically for a community that defined itself as being in exile virtually nostudies of its political attitudes exist and certainly none that encompass thechanging political attitudes over 47 years of the exodus. Through the use oftwo major research strategies participant observation and indepth semistructured interviews Pedraza captures the processes of politicaldisaffection and emphasizes the contrasts among the four major waves of theexodus not only in their social characteristics but also in their attitudes asmembers of different political generations. «