Intimacy and Belonging in Cuban Tourism and Migration

Tourism, Migration, and Back in Cuba

“…Another frequently raised complaint was that they got unfair and discriminatory treatment as a “Cuban living abroad” ( el Cubano que vive en el extranjero ). This made it impossible to be received as just “a tourist” or “an ordinary Cuban” (see Simoni , ). This has implications for anthropological research.…”

Foreword

“…Another frequently raised complaint was that they got unfair and discriminatory treatment as a "Cuban living abroad" (el Cubano que vive en el extranjero). This made it impossible to be received as just "a tourist" or "an ordinary Cuban" (see Simoni 2015Simoni , 2019. This has implications for anthropological research.…”

Sex, Seduction, and Care for the Other in Touristic Cuba *

“…The "normative intimacies" (Berlant, 2011;Simoni, 2015b) expressed in the discourses of Yoanni and others like him emphasized their ability to take good and proper care of the tourist partner in all life's domains, "from the bed to the table" (de la cama a la mesa). The problem, told me Yoanni, expressing a rather widespread view, was that tourist women were full of doubts about the real intentions of Cuban men, and that many of them ended up enjoying only the sex part of the relationship, thus failing to appreciate the smooth and necessary continuities, which the men strived to bring about, between sex, romance, and care in its broadest possible sense.…”