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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 ...
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.
Still, Puerto Rico is, according to Colón, “by far the most important territory of the United States.” Puerto Rico has not become a state because of a combination of decisions taken — or ...
The following wave of Puerto Ricans to move to New York did so after the Spanish–American War of 1898 made Puerto Rico a U.S. possession and after the Jones–Shafroth Act of 1917 gave Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, which allows travel without the need of a passport between the island and the United States mainland. The largest wave of ...
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.
It has elements of being a country, but also some advantages of being in the United States related to security and labor migration. Puerto Rican leaders have framed this as “the best of both ...
Because Puerto Ricans are born U.S. citizens, they can easily register to vote in presidential elections once they move to the mainland U.S., which is different from members of other Latino ...