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Title: Puerto Rico, Migration 1868 to Present

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: In 1898, the United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-Cuban-American war. In 1901, the US Supreme Court defined Puerto Rico as foreign to the United States in a domestic sense, in other words neither a state of the American union nor an independent country. The Court also ruled that the island was an unincorporated territory hellip belonging to hellip but not a part of the United States (Downes v. Bidwell 1901). The Court later declared that Puerto Ricans were not aliens for immigration purposes in the United States (Gonzales v. Williams 1904). In 1917, Congress granted US citizenship to all persons born on the island, without extending to them all constitutional rights and duties.

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Authors: Duany, Jorge

Publisher: The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

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Topics: Migration and Immigration

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