Sponsored Migration : The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States / / Edgardo Meléndez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910269346003321
• Autore: Meléndez Edgardo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus, [Ohio] : , : The Ohio State University, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-8142-7510-9; 0-8142-7512-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 pages)
• Collana: Global Latin/o Americas
• Disciplina: 305.868/7295073
• Soggetti: Migrant labor - United States; Puerto Ricans - United States - Social conditions; Puerto Ricans - United States - Politics and government; Puerto Ricans - United States - Migrations; United States Politics and government 1933-1953; Puerto Rico Politics and government 1952-1998; Puerto Rico Politics and government 1898-1952; Puerto Rico Colonial influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Puerto Rican migration and the colonial state -- "Neither encouraging nor discouraging": the making of Puerto Rico's migration policy -- Puerto Ricans as domestic workers and the Farm Placement Program -- There ain't no buses from San Juan to the Bronx: postwar migration and air transportation -- "Every Puerto Rican a potential migrant": migrant education and the English language issue -- The beets of wrath: migration policy and migrant discontent in Michigan, 1950 -- Puerto Ricans as migratory labor, the state as a labor contractor.
• Sommario/riassunto: Sponsored Migration places Puerto Rico's migration policy in its historical context, examining the central role the Puerto Rican government played in encouraging and organizing migration during the postwar period. Meléndez sheds an important new light on the many ways in which the government intervened in the movement of its ; people: attempting to provide labor to U.S. agriculture, incorporating migrants into places like New York City, seeking to expand the island's air transportation infrastructure, and even promoting migration in the public school system. One of the first scholars to explore this topic in depth, Meléndez illuminates how migration influenced U.S. and Puerto Rican relations from 1898 onward.