Gallery

Archival photographs of Cuban migration to the United States, from 1959 to today. All are public domain or openly licensed, and each one says where it comes from.

98 photographs14 periods

1959-1962

The First Exile

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1960-1962

Operation Pedro Pan

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1962-1965

The Closed-Door Years

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1965-1973

Camarioca and the Freedom Flights

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1966

The Birth of the Cuban Adjustment Act

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1973-1979

Dialogue and Reunion

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1980

The Mariel Exodus

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1981-1993

Between Two Crises

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1994

The Rafter Crisis

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1995-2016

Wet Foot, Dry Foot

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2017-2020

The End of "Wet Foot, Dry Foot"

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2021-2023

The Great Exodus

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2025-2026

Closed Doors, Law Still Standing

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Places

The diaspora and its places