balsero

From Spanish balsero.

balsero (plural balseros)

1. A refugee who travels from Cuba to America by sea.
   • 1997 February 7, Fred Camper, “Anti-Masterpieces”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     If Manglano-Ovalle sympathizes with the balseros, Kara Walker's installation at the Renaissance Society is so over-the-top it can hardly be reduced to a simple argument.

• balsero on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• arbelos, labrose, solebar

From balsa (“raft”) +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /balˈseɾo/

balsero m (plural balseros, feminine balsera, feminine plural balseras)

1. balsero

• “balsero” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.