Documented livelihood practices of migrants based on a recent field study of population flows between Puerto Rico and the United States, comparing characteristics of multiple movers, onetime movers, and nonmovers residing in Puerto Rico. Results suggest that circular migration does not entail major losses in human capital for Puerto Rico, but can…

Replicates previous research on Hispanic intermarriage using 1991 marriage records from New York (New York), focusing on trends in marital assimilation among Puerto Ricans and the non-Puerto Rican Hispanic population. Considerable intermarriage among Hispanics of different national origins is characteristic of all Hispanics in New York. (SLD)

Investigated self and social categorization of Puerto Rican returning migrants (Nuyoricans). Surveys indicated that migrant and non-migrant high school students evaluated Nuyorican adolescents as significantly different from adolescents raised in Puerto Rico. Student evaluations of adolescents differing in salience of Nuyorican attributes…

This paper describes the Puerto Rican movement to the mainland United States as a contract labor group before, during, and after World War II. The communities which developed from this early movement provided the nucleus from which the present Puerto Rican communities arose on the mainland U.S. (Author/EB)

Examines the effect of family indicators, including marriage, on migration from, and return to, Puerto Rico in the 1980s using data from surveys of 3,175 and 2,032 women. Single women apparently use migration to gain independence, but married women often follow men in the migration stream. (SLD)

Presents findings from an analysis of the 1970 census on the differential fertility of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and in Puerto Ricans with the stated purpose of demonstrating that the apparent higher fertility of Puerto Rican women is due to their age structure, as well as their socioeconomic status. (Author/JM)

Compares the fertility of Puerto Ricans who migrated to the United States with the fertility of their non-migrant counterparts who remained in Puerto Rico, and examines the effect of the migration itself and the subsequent exposure to a low fertility milieu on fertility. (Author)

Puerto Ricans cope with the new environment on the mainland because of the supportive, help giving familial and cultural systems they bring with them, the supportive systems they create in the host country, and the supportive systems which, already there, are available for help. (Author)

Findings indicate that both education and age at arrival on the U.S. mainland have significant effects upon the ethnic identity of Puerto Rican mothers, fathers, and children. Further, the child's education and age at arrival are significantly and independently related to changes in ethnic identity in the family. (Author/GC)

Argues that the semiperipheral development of Puerto Rico since around 1975 has created a relative labor surplus in formal sectors of the economy while increasing demand for cheap labor in the informal service sector. Describes migration of Puerto Ricans to and from the U.S. and of Dominicans to Puerto Rico. (AF)

Explores the individual-level relationship of return migrant status to employment outcomes, taking into account local and regional factors such as the Puerto Rican level of employment. Findings using 1970 and 1980 Census data support a negative influence of return migrant status. Mediating factors are discussed. (SLD)

Results from analyses of census data for 997 immigrant Mexican wives, 347 Puerto Ricans, and 405 other Hispanics in comparison with 1,210 native-born counterparts and 8,766 white wives indicate that the labor force behavior of Hispanic wives is highly responsive to their earning potential. (SLD)

Examines the role of human capital and labor market characteristics in explaining geographic and individual differentials in socioeconomic outcomes of Puerto Rican women in mainland United States. Human capital plays a larger role than do labor market characteristics in the better socioeconomic performance of Puerto Ricans outside the Northeast.…