Two strategies or modes of immigrant adaptation, ethnic enclaves and middleman minorities, have been treated in the literature as if they were disjointed and discordant. Using data collected in a survey of Cuban exiles in Puerto Rico, this article examines expectations from both modes and concludes that a course of action different from that followed in the literature seems to be more fruitful.
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