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Tourist brides and migrant grooms: Cuban–Danish couples and family reunification policies
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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2019
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As a development strategy mass tourism often precipitates social changes, expected and unexpected. Emigration through marriage may seem to be an unlikely by-product of the expanding tourist industry in Cuba, but the increasing number of Cubans emigrating through marriage to a foreign partner has paralleled the influx of tourists since the mid-1990’s. This article explores how gender dynamics in the Cuban tourist milieu intersect with gendered underpinnings of family reunification policies in Denmark by focusing on the marriage migration pattern of Cuban grooms with Nordic brides. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark among Cuban marriage migrants and their spouses, the study shows a cross-border migration pattern shaped by multiple factors including global economic asymmetries, the eroticization of Cuban culture in the tourism industry, and the gender egalitarian welfare state of Denmark.
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Nadine T. Fernandez (2019) Tourist brides and migrant grooms: Cuban–Danish couples and family reunification policies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45:16, 3141-3156, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1547025