book chapter
The Puerto Rican population in the United States
Island paradox : Puerto Rico in the 1990s • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: 126-151
By: Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L., Santiago, Carlos Enrique.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rivera-Batiz and Santiago describe the Puerto Rican population of the United States by examining such things as population levels, where Puerto Ricans are living and how that is changing, characteristics of migrants verses non-migrants, household incomes, economic gains, and poverty levels.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Internal migration
- External migration
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Carlos E. Santiago
- For bibliographical references see document number 61: Rivera-Batiz
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96021094
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States