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Levitt, Peggy. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Masud-Piloto, Félix. From Welcome Exiles to Illegal Immigrants: Cuban Migration to the United States, 1959-1995. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.

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Pérez, Gina M. The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

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