Entre Mundos – Families between Cuba and Switzerland
Anna Urwyler
Towards the end of 2016, there were 1.715 Cubans living in Switzerland. Relationships between Cuban-Swiss couples and families often take place in an informally legal economy. Families in Cuba, the country of origin, are existentially dependent on financial support of their relatives in Switzerland.
In her interactive video project “Entre Mundos – Families between Cuba and Switzerland” Anna Urwyler documents the frictional lives of four families between Cuba and Switzerland. Next to Cuban-Swiss differences of culture, which often produce tensions, the couples and families experience particularly high psychological pressures. These are caused by the claiming expectations expressed by those in Cuba who are directly dependent of their Swiss family members, by prejudices in Switzerland and, generally, the social difficulties of integration.
