Publications [#319011] of Holly Ackerman

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1. Ackerman, H, Different diasporas: Cubans in Venezuela, 1959-1998, in Cuba: IDEA of a Nation Displaced (December, 2007), pp. 90-106, ISBN 9780791471999
   (last updated on 2023/09/22)

   Abstract:
   Although the Cuban community in the United States is much bigger, Venezuela is the second-largest site of the Cuban Diaspora.1 An examination of the Venezuelan community illustrates the diversity that has been a relatively unexamined part of exile life.2 By exploring the structure and trajectory of the Venezuela community, stereotypes of the Cuban Diaspora are offset and the possibility of diversity is opened both as a fact of Cuban exile life and as a feature of diasporas in general. Like variation among national diasporas, patterning within diaspora locations is a constructed reality. A variety of objective and subjective factors impact the fundamental perception of diaspora groups in ways that profoundly affect their identity and incorporation in host countries. This essay explores key factors and conjunctures that shaped the Cuban community in Venezuela and compares it with the more often discussed community in Miami. © 2007 State University of New York. All rights reserved.