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The massive migration of Puerto Ricans to the mainland United States was largest in the early and late 20th century, [35] prior to its resurgence in the early 21st century. U.S. political and economic interventions in Puerto Rico created the conditions for emigration, "by concentrating wealth in the hands of US corporations and displacing workers."
Puerto Rican migration to Hawaii began when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devastated by two hurricanes in 1899. The devastation caused a worldwide shortage in sugar and a huge demand for the product from Hawaii. Consequently, Hawaiian sugarcane plantation owners began to recruit the jobless, but experienced, laborers from Puerto Rico. In ...
The Western United States is home to 465,000 Puerto Ricans, comprising 8% of the Puerto Rican population nationwide. Most Puerto Ricans in the western US live in California, smaller numbers live in areas like Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as the Honolulu metropolitan area in Hawaii.
Chart reflecting Puerto Rican migration in the United States circa 1980s. However, starting in 2006 and extending into the early 2010s, there was a resurgence in migration from Puerto Rico to New York City [65] and New Jersey, with an apparently multifactorial allure to Puerto Ricans, primarily for economic and cultural considerations.
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The 2005 National Puerto Rican Parade. New York City has the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans, due to the forced change of the citizenship status of the island's residents, can technically be said to have come to the City first as immigrants and subsequently as migrants. The first group of Puerto Ricans ...
Thus, the relative ease of migration between the United States and Puerto Rico makes this case particularly pertinent. In the 1970s, migration from Puerto Rico to the United States was surpassed by reverse migration back to the homeland. This circular flow of migration is facilitated by the establishment of "mobile livelihoods" by these migrants.
The book mentioned the role of Puerto Ricans and how they interacted with politics, social life, and the American culture, as well as problems of discrimination and poverty that Puerto Ricans faced in the city. It is seen as instrumental for understanding and displaying the lives of Puerto Rican migrants in the late 19th century and into the 1940s.