Puerto Rican Migration

Cubans have absolutely no problem sharing their feelings, thoughts, and ideas. They are known for being boisterous and not keeping anything to themselves. For example, when I have gone a long time without seeing a family member the first words out of their mouth are “oh my goodness! You have gained weight.” If anyone wants an honest opinion a Cuban is the right person to ask, they are very blunt and to the point. Although they are open to talk about anything to have a conversation, there are somethings that are considered taboo in discussion. A very touchy subject would be racism. In Cuba, they are still battling some issues with it. It is said that black Cubans do not get the same fair treatment as all the others. They are given the hardest and less remunerated jobs. Many Black Cubans complain that they are given a hard time in their jobs and get hassled the most by police when they are doing their jobs (New attitudes on once-taboo race questions emerge in Cuba, 2017).

To begin, it is important to know about the history of Cuba to fully comprehend how things came to be as they are today. Since the Conquest and Colonization Era (1492-1898), many of the prominent European countries and the powerful neighbor to the north of Cuba, the United States of America, have attempted to take control of the land. It first began with the Spanish conquistadors, specifically Diego Velázquez, who was the first to explore and settle the land. Up until the end of the 19th century, the Spanish monarch was the authoritative figure overseeing the land and

New York City's fastest growing immigrant group are Dominicans, a Spanish speaking people, flocking from the Dominican Republic to the United States, New York City in specific. In 1980 the Dominican population in NYC was 125,380, in 1990 it was 332,713, and today in 1999 it is an estimated 500,000 people. The only problem with this is through the years of their migration to America, their per capita income has declined precipitously. It seems as though when the Dominican population in America increases, their income as a whole decreases. Nearly half of the Dominicans in NYC live below the poverty level. In 1990 29% of Dominicans where on welfare. Of foreign people immigrating to the U.S., only people from the former Soviet Union had a higher percentage of people living on public assistance. From 1989 to 1996 their per capita income declined 23% to $6,094 a year, in inflation adjusted dollars, while their poverty rate rose from 37% to 46%, that is almost double for the city as a whole. Unemployment also rose from 17.2% in 1990 to 18.8% in 1996 (Lopez, p. 3). The source of these severe economic problems

As much as we don’t want to admit it, racial profiling from police has been going on in America ever since the early political policing era in the mid 1800’s. With racial disparity within the criminal justice system, I would be approaching how blacks and Latinos are targeted and approached in a more aggressive manner than that of a white American. I would also be approaching how Latinos and blacks are more likely to be frisk and stopped by police for no valid reason, besides racial profiling. Also those police not having probable cause and physically harms individuals. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be stopped and frisk at a higher rate than other races. Latinos and blacks are approached while walking in their own neighborhoods, also

When Puerto Ricans migrated to the United States they did it in two major waves. The first wave of emigration occurred in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The second wave occurred from the 1940s to the present. The workings of Bernando Vega and Jose Cruz deal with the different generations of Puerto Ricans that these two waves brought to the United States. While Vega discusses the early emigration of Puerto Ricans to New York City, Cruz discusses the later emigration of Puerto Ricans to Connecticut. Each author describes a different Puerto Rican experience in the

As a Latino American, there is more that I must live up to other than being a criminal. Student helpful website edupass.org lists out several stereotypes that other people think about just Americans. Here are a few of my favorite: “Drunkard, Generous, Lazy, Loud and

Gustavo Lopez (2013) tells that Hispanics from Cuba are a big proportion of the United States. Cuban Americans are affiliated with Hispanics. (Lopez, 2013) “Cubans in this statistical profile are people who self-identified as Hispanics of Cuban origin; this means either they themselves are Cuban immigrants or they trace their family ancestry to Cuba” (Lopez, 2013, pp.1). In 2013, Gustavo tells that the Cuban population in the United States was very large. (Lopez, 2013) Cubans who live in the United States prefer to be called certain terms (Lopez, 2013). Most often, Cubans prefer the term “Cuban” and only a few Cubans prefer to be termed as an “American” (Lopez, 2013). Also, when the Cubans were asked about being termed “Hispanic” or “Latino,” both terms were not favorable (Lopez, 2013).

Central Americans are becoming more aware of their situation when immigrating to a new country. The problem isn’t Cubans but the immigration system itself is flawed. Allowing Cubans, a free

This is a very personal issue for him and he hopes his background will offer enough credibility for those who are skeptical that minorities are routinely harassed by law enforcement in poor communities. He said that his caseload contained “maybe one or two or three cases a week or a month (that) were really important.” Whereas, most of the rest were cases against minorities for the same kinds of petty crimes that police generally overlook in middle and upper class suburban areas. As a white youth from the suburbs, Constantino and his friends had always thought of the “police and the criminal justice system as their allies and friends. (The police) always gave us the benefit of the doubt. They always treated us

The history of Cuban immigration to the United States is vastly different than that of any other immigrant group. This difference have been codified into law and policy with the purpose of crippling Castro’s communist regime. Many immigrant groups and Americans have viewed the laws and policies as discriminatory as they clearly established preferential treatment, economic and education advantages of one immigrant group over another. After The U.S. government passed the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, exempting Cuban immigrants from many of the provision established by The U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 it was not until the “wet-foot, dry-foot policy of 1995 that anything was done by the United States government to normalize the

Numerous Puerto Rican, Dominican, Salvadorans and other Latino residents have reported illegal searches, harassment by building inspectors, and their homes are inspected for housing-code violations far more frequently than those of whites. They also report racial profiling and police harassment. Many local whites seem to prefer a community that segregates whites and Latinos in separate residential areas.

Due to the fact that the Latinos accepted a lower income, Pre-Katrina citizens felt that their working days had vanished (Pg.100). One question many white citizens asked was, “Should New Orleans residents be hired before Mexican immigrants” (Campo-Flores, 2005, Pg.90)? Even though these citizens felt this way, many didn’t lose their jobs, only a cut in pay (Pg.100). Come to find out, these residents might have overthought or overreacted, the Latinos did not negatively affect the people, but positively impacted their wages (Card, Pg.100). Furthermore, some Latinos did not earn as much money as the white citizens did (Vinck,

Puerto Rico, a name synonymous with finding it’s identity. Has had its woes in that search of identity. After suffering the colonialism of Spain, Puerto Rico was then won by the US in the Spanish American war. Puerto Ricans, deep-rooted in culture and tradition start the journey of searching for better. In the 1950s, after being a territory of the US for 51 years. We see huge emigration from Puerto Rico to the US. The Puerto Rican government played a crucial role in the Puerto Rican migration after world war II. The emigration numbers sky rocket in the 1950s and there is a reason it did. In this paper, I’ll prove that Puerto Ricans migrated to the US in search of a better life because of the post war economic conditions, population increase,

With a little over 21 million people, the state of Florida clocks in as the third largest population in the United States. That figure is more than three and half times that of the nation and its rapid growth has transformed most of the state from rural to urban in just a few decades. Immigration is a key player in that progression, and it is greatly affecting the southern cities. The city of Miami has won first place in having the most foreign-born residents, mainly coming from Latin America and the Caribbean islands with new incomers each year. If you have ever visited South Florida you quickly realize that Spanish is the dominant language in the area. It has become a city of immigrants and the vast majority residing illegally. With such a large influx, it brings to the forefront the amount of illegal aliens in the county. A large quantity of these immigrants are undocumented workers, workers who are getting paid off the books and less than minimum wage.

Neoclassical economics of migration focuses on individual decision to attain higher wages by migrating to a new higher wage country. Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States is an example of this theory. Analysis has been done that illustrates when Puerto Rico’s unemployment rates are high migration to the mainland in the United States for work is high. Although Puerto Rico is a common wealth of the United States migration between the two represents significant movements across linguistic, cultural and geographic boundaries. This theory explains migration very well especially in this segment of the population because its not uncommon for a Puerto Rican to migrate to the United States for better opportunities for work and later