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Title: "Let Me Go Check Out Florida": Rethinking Puerto Rican Diaspora
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: Rational choice, assimilation, and other traditional approaches to understanding Puerto Rican migration and incorporation are not sufficient for explaining newly emerging diaspora communities. Using census numbers, ethnographic data, and oral history narratives, we look at the case of Central Florida where Puerto Ricans struggle to build an ethnic community in the face of internal divisions and racialization pressures from their non-Hispanic neighbors. In the 21st-century Great Dispersal, it remains to be seen whether Puerto Ricans in new diaspora settlements will see economic bifurcation and birthplace diversity compounded by social assignments as either "honorary white" or "collective black," or whether they will manage to forge a collective identification from which to challenge ongoing socioeconomic hierarchies in new destinations.
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Authors: Silver, Patricia; Vélez, William
Periodical (Full): Centro Journal
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Pages: 98-125
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
Countries: United States