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Abstract The immigration reform in Cuba includes the set of new regulations announced in October 2012 and put into effect as of January 14, 2013. The changes in daily practices, due to the possibilities that open up for external migration in the movement of the population, also impact everyday subjectivity. With the objective of studying the psychosocial impact, a mixed methodology was used in two phases: quantitative with 411 questionnaires in March 2013 and qualitative deepening with 14 case studies in March 2014, all applied in Havana. The results show transformations in ways of feeling, thinking and acting in daily life: they placed the new immigration regulations as the main change in current Cuban society among all those that are perceived to be occurring; the family naturalizes reunification as possible, both outside and within the country and as something temporary; the possibility of trips in order to work outside the country is placed as a coping strategy for problems; and daily practices of circular migration emerge. It is highlighted that it is a policy that favors the perception of the government; although the differentiating impact on society is perceived as unfavorable, since it only benefits those who can travel because they have resources or emigrated relatives. The still current political conditioning that historically marked the Cuban migratory process, from the Revolution and the economic blockade of the United States against Cuba, has been located in dynamics of change and continuity.

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