Description |
xvi, 193 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Perspectives on a multiracial America |
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Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index. |
Contents |
Poem: feet -- 1. Where is Home? Living Transnational Lives -- 2. Pathways into the Puerto Rican Middle Class -- 3. The Empty Spaces of Migration: The Transnationalization of Puerto Rican Families -- 4. Ethnoracial Marginalization and Cultural Alienation -- 5. Emotional Embeddedness and Professional Migrations: Patterns of Settlement within Transnational Social Fields -- 6. Conclusion: Weighing Hearts and Minds -- Poem: stranded between Vanishing Islands. |
Summary |
"Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico examines the experiences of incorporation among two groups of middle-class Puerto Ricans: one that currently lives on the U.S. mainland and one that has resettled in Puerto Rico. The analysis focuses on their subjective interpretations of incorporation and the conditions under which they decide to move back and forth between the mainland and the island. Findings reveal that migration to the mainland results in educational, occupational, and economic gains that also help return migrants reenter island labor markets. However, settlement in the United States brings its own set of struggles. |
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Puerto Ricans see themselves as members of transnational families, yet the struggles of leading dual lives result in settlement decisions that reflect desires to live locally with roots in one place instead of feeling split between the two. Experiences with U.S. racism complicate these decisions, given Puerto Ricans' struggles with racial identity and exclusion in spite of their economic, occupational, and residential integration into mainland society. This study illustrates the conditions under which various patterns of emotional anchoring develop, and how these patterns will impact future Puerto Rican settlements."--Jacket. |
Subject |
Puerto Ricans -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
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Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Psychology.
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Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Middle class -- United States.
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Return migration -- Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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Racism -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Immigrants -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00967782
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Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
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Puerto Ricans -- Cultural assimilation.
(OCoLC)fst01083713
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Puerto Ricans -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01083741
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Puerto Ricans -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01083744
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Return migration. (OCoLC)fst01096413
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Puerto Rico. (OCoLC)fst01205432
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Assimilation <Soziologie>
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Migration.
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Puertoricaner.
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United States.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Aranda, Elizabeth M., 1973- Emotional bridges to Puerto Rico. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007 (OCoLC)607791924 |
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Online version: Aranda, Elizabeth M., 1973- Emotional bridges to Puerto Rico. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007 (OCoLC)608100192 |
ISBN |
9780742543249 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0742543242 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780742543256 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0742543250 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Standard No. |
9780742543249 |
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9780742543256 |