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STERNAU, HERBERT – 1958
PUERTO RICO WAS DISCOVERED BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN 1493. THE PROCESS OF COLONIZATION BEGAN IN 1508, WITH THE ARRIVAL OF PONCE DE LEON AND HIS SPANISH SOLDIERS. PUERTO RICO WAS GOVERNED BY SPAIN FOR ABOUT 400 YEARS, AND THE GREAT MASS OF PEOPLE REMAINED POVERTY-STRICKEN, UNDERNOURISHED, AND ILLITERATE. THE ISLAND WAS CEDED TO THE UNITED STATES…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, History
Diaz, Joseph O. Prewitt; Seilhamer, Emily Stella – Migration World, 1987
Reviews research literature on Puerto Rican youth and summarizes findings on factors influencing return migration and the cultural and physical adjustment of return migrants. Presents findings of a survey of Puerto Rican students, non-migrants and return migrants, which attempted to determine whether there was a relationship between reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Hispanic Americans
Download full textCarrasquillo, Angela; Carrasquillo, Ceferino – 1983
Among Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the United States, a significant number have returned to Puerto Rico, while others shuttle between Puerto Rico and the United States. These groups of people are identified as return migrants. Studies suggest that return migrant youth in Puerto Rico have had to make environmental and cultural adjustments…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship
Bray, Howard – New York Times Magazine, 1983
Examines economic and other reasons for Puerto Rican migration to the United States; describes the life styles, employment opportunities, and problems of middle class, professional and skilled Puerto Ricans who count among the new wave of migrants to the mainland; and suggests that more Puerto Ricans will migrate in the near future. (MJL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Brain Drain, Economic Factors, Economic Opportunities
Prewitt Diaz, Joseph O.; Seilhamer, Emily Stella – 1985
Almost 300 non-migrant, migrant, return migrant, and circulatory migrant high school students participated in a study of the relationship of the level of adjustment to mainstream Puerto Rican society and the frequency of migration. No direct relationship between reading achievement and physical adjustment was found. However, as the level of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
National Puerto Rican Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1992
This booklet describes the issues and findings of a series of symposia on Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and in the United States. From 1988 to 1992, six symposia were held, three in the United States and three in Puerto Rico, on topics such as migration, culture and language, community characteristics, strengthening relations between the two…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Development, Community Relations, Conferences
Leavitt, Ruby Rohrlich – 1974
This anthropological study examines whether sociocultural factors are basic to the etiology of stuttering through (1) an investigation of the incidence of stuttering in a single ethnic group, Puerto Rican rural migrants living in two different cultural milieus (San Juan and New York City), and (2) a comparison of the sociocultural variables in the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Culture, Anthropology, Area Studies
