Sponsored Migration : The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States

Sponsored Migration The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States

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Sponsored Migration places Puerto Rico's migration policy in its historical context, examining the central role the Puerto Rican government played in encouraging and organizing migration during the postwar period. Meléndez sheds an important new light on the many ways in which the government i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Meléndez, Edgardo, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus, [Ohio] : The Ohio State University 2017.
Colección:Global Latin/o Americas.
Materias:
Migrant labor > United States.
Puerto Ricans > United States > Social conditions.
Puerto Ricans > United States > Politics and government.
Puerto Ricans > United States > Migrations.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1953.
Puerto Rico > Politics and government > 1952-1998.
Puerto Rico > Politics and government > 1898-1952.
Puerto Rico > Colonial influence.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Puerto Rican migration and the colonial state
  • "Neither encouraging nor discouraging": the making of Puerto Rico's migration policy
  • Puerto Ricans as domestic workers and the Farm Placement Program
  • There ain't no buses from San Juan to the Bronx: postwar migration and air transportation
  • "Every Puerto Rican a potential migrant": migrant education and the English language issue
  • The beets of wrath: migration policy and migrant discontent in Michigan, 1950
  • Puerto Ricans as migratory labor, the state as a labor contractor.

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