Diplomacy Meets Migration examines diplomacy, migration, and the history of U.S. relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Hideaki Kami draws on declassified U.S. and Cuban diplomatic sources, as well as Miami-Cuban lobby records, to challenge traditional interpretations that mainly focus on the two national capitals, Washington and Havana. By incorporating Miami into the story of foreign affairs, Kami assesses the intersection between migration and diplomacy, and considers how migration emerged as a critical issue that shaped the dynamism of U.S. relations with Cuba. Kami demonstrates that the U.S. government reformulated its Cuban policy in response to Fidel Castro's institutionalization of power, while simultaneously trying to build a new relationship with the Miami Cuban community, a new, politically mobilized constituency within U.S. society. He shows how both migration control and migrant politics became important components of U.S. foreign policy, which in turn influenced Cuban policy toward the United States.