Book
Puerto Rican poverty and migration: we just had to try elsewhere
Praeger • New York • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Morales, Julio.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the causes of the poverty of Puerto Ricans in the mainland United States. The communities studied are the migrant populations living in New York City and Waltham, Massachusetts. Morales asks these questions: 'Why are Puerto Ricans as a group at the bottom of the economic hierarchy? Why do Black U.S. citizens fare better? What has been, and is, U.S. interest in Puerto Rico? Why has this interest persisted? Why have Puerto Ricans failed to enter the U.S. mainstream when ethnic European immigrants have succeeded? What role has institutionalized racism played? What has been the role of the capitalist economic system?' (p. xvi). Answers to these questions involve understanding the military, political, economic, and social relations between Puerto Rico and the United States, as well as cultural history, and the history of Puerto Rican immigration to New York City, New England, and other parts of the country.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Composition of population
- Internal migration
- External migration
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Housing
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Poverty
- Education system
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1975-1976 (p. ix)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1952-
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y. and Waltham, Mass., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Julio Morales
- 'Praeger special studies'
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. 225-245
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85019439
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Migration--Internal--United States/Puerto Rico--Emigration and immigration