“…Sex tourism in particular has been a disproportionate focus of scholarship, with Jafari Allen, like others, interpreting it as "a painful reminder of the limits of the success of the Revolution" (2011, p. 164). In addition to the re-emergence of sex tourism, research from the 2000s-largely by social anthropologists-cited troubling social consequences such as the exclusion of Cubans from tourist spaces (Espino, 2000), stratification of society according to access to dollars (Jackiewicz, 2002), racist hiring practices and increased racial discrimination (de la Fuente, 2001) and the devalorization of state jobs (Ritter & Henken, 2015).…”