Rican migration

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The story of the Puerto Rican people is quite unique in the history of U.S. immigration, just as Puerto Rico dwell a distinctive and sometimes confusing position in the nation’s civic fabric. Puerto Rico has been ownership of the U.S. for more than a century, however it has never been a state. Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, but even with that they still have no vote in Congress. Being citizens of the U.S. they can move throughout the fifty states without any problems just as any

dialect, as in the case of Jary. Her “Spanglish” is different from the Puerto Rican Spanish spoken amongst the children in her new school. To them she sounds funny, and vice versa. Children can be cruel when accepting new students, imagine a student that is far from the culture?      Jary is almost rescued by Miss Hernandez a teacher who spoke both English and Spanish, (and that is Puerto Rican Spanish). Jary befriends Miss Hernandez, as Miss Hernandez helps Jary learn the

for the day without being judged. She was labled different, all she ever wanted to do was to be like everyone else. This eventually led to her being depressed. Within the story, Oritz Cofer describes how terrible she was treated due to her Puerto Rican heritage and skin color, and how she would never be able to fit in. Minorities of different complexions get ridiculed and judged for their skin color by many people every day. In this short story, Ortiz Cofer stated, “I was born a white girl in Puerto

the most striking observations I examined was the way in which culture was used to beautify and extol ethnic heritage during my first visit to downtown Holyoke. I witnessed culture functioning as an emblematic tool that was memorializing the Puerto Rican community through art murals, blaring salsa music [which dominated the air-resonance] and other manifestations that showcased Boricua ethos. Those same cultural cues remained during my second trip, but as I engaged more intimately with the residents

Identity is at the core of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets, Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, and Rhina Espiallat’s Where Horizons Go. All of these Diasporic literary works deals with the manner in which the characters negotiate their relationships between their current locations and their ancestral homelands. In each work the protagonists struggle to unionize there two parts of his/her identity, to bring together the ‘here’ (where they are now) and ‘there’ (their ancestral homeland)

It’s hard to say that comparing two individual’s lives is an easy task. When looking at my life and Esmerelda Santiago’s life, the sociological imagination could be used to assist in doing that. The following concepts will be used to better understand the surprising similarities and differences: immigration, doing gender, conformist, double consciousness, deviance and traditional authority. I will start by analyzing Esmerelda Santiago’s life. Following that, I will analyze my life and will finish

of English people actually speak today. Hector Figueroa “Puerto Rican workers: a profile.”, 1997. Web. 17 Nov. 2017. The author addresses that many Puerto Ricans have made the move from the island to the States. In fact, over one third of the Puerto Rican population resides in the US. Of those, forty percent live in New York. During the 1950’s, the Puerto Rican experience was one of hard work and little or no rewards. Most Puerto Rican men and women were working in the harshest environments and earning

were the only Spanish colonies remaining. Puerto Ricans have had been migrating to New York since the 19th Century. After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico became a possession of the United States. About 1,800 Puerto Rican citizens immigrated during this period to New York. Later, in 1902, the US issued new immigration guidelines that changed the status of Puerto Ricans to “foreigners”. A further decision by the Supreme Court stated that Puerto Ricans were not U.S. citizens but “noncitizen nationals

universal bond between two groups is language. In the case of the Puerto Rican and the Mexican American experience within the US, their bond goes even further than just the language of Spanish. The land mass that is now known as Mexico and Puerto Rico were once Indian lands confiscated by Spain. In the quest for a decent life, parallels can be drawn of migration causation due to US foreign policy in both the Puerto Rican and Mexican histories. Puerto Rico and parts of Mexico both became US possessions