Profile Of Cuban Immigrants In The U.S. Have Changed Since The 60s, Study Says

Cuban Exiles: Then And Now
Cubans cheer as they wait to see US singer Beyonce in front of the Saratoga Hotel in Havana on April 5, 2013. Pop diva Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z on Thursday created a stir as they toured the streets of Old Havana, with hundreds of Cubans turning out to catch a glimpse of the US power couple. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Cubans cheer as they wait to see US singer Beyonce in front of the Saratoga Hotel in Havana on April 5, 2013. Pop diva Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z on Thursday created a stir as they toured the streets of Old Havana, with hundreds of Cubans turning out to catch a glimpse of the US power couple. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

The profile of Cuban immigrants of the 1960s and '70s, educated and exiled to the United States for political reasons, has given way in later decades to that of poor foreigners with needs like those of immigrants from other countries, who basically want to make money to help the family they left back home.

This was the observation of Princeton University professor Alejandro Portes, who has studied this immigrant profile for years.

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