Book
The Puerto Rican migrant in New York City
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1938 • Pages:
By: Chenault, Lawrence Royce.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Chenault's work is considered to be the only source of information on Puerto Rican migrants in New York City for the 1930s. The author discusses some of the social effects of the migration, especially in regard to the social problems that it created. After a description of the background, extent of the migration, and places of settlement of the migrants in New York City, Chenault discusses occupations, employment opportunities, and economic status in the city. This latter section of the text includes data on housing and health. Other problems considered in this work are those dealing with the social adjustment of Puerto Ricans to the new community, anti-social behavior (crime and delinquency), the effects of the migration on family life, forms of recreation, and social activities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural identity and pride
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Poverty
- Delinquency
- Crime
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Lawrence R. Chenault
- Chapter III deals with the composition, growth, and economic conditions of the population of Puerto Rico and has been indexed for History and Culture Change 170, as general culture background.
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. 175-180
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)