The article analyzes how the participation of migrants in Cuban public life has been reconfigured, starting with the process of updating the economic, political and social model that began in 2008. This group, which had been excluded from national public life through an intersection of official policies and discourses-which supported the viewpoint of migration without return, due to political causes, and an "us vs. them" opposition-now benefits from a Cuba that is more open to the world and consistent with transnational migration. Although the road to full citizenship continues to be full of obstacles, there are new opportunities for participation in public life, which the article measures from the integration of Cubans residing in Ecuador in the formal and informal economies to their maintenance of a migratory status in Cuba and the flow of information and communication with their native country. © Regions & Cohesion.

Public life Formal economy Migration citizenship Cuba Informal Economy Transnational networks Ecuador

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