the state and Puerto Rican postwar migration to the United States Meléndez, Edgardo creator author. text bibliography ohu 2017 monographic eng spa

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xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting Puerto Rican migration to the United States from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Examining the consequences of the perceived problem of Puerto Rican overpopulation as well as the cost of U.S. imperialism on the lives of Puerto Rican workers, Meléndez scrutinizes Puerto Rican migration in the postwar period as a microcosm of the political history of migration throughout Latin America. 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. Puerto Rican migration and the colonial state -- "Neither encouraging nor discouraging": the making of Puerto Rico's migration policy -- Puerto Ricans as domestic workers: 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 labor contractor. Edgardo Meléndez. Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index. Puerto Ricans United States Migrations Puerto Ricans United States Politics and government Puerto Ricans United States Social conditions Migrant labor United States Puerto Rico Colonial influence Puerto Rico Politics and government 1898-1952 Puerto Rico Politics and government 1952-1998 United States Politics and government 1933-1953 E184.P85 M45 2017 305.868/7295073 9780814213414 0814213413 2017009221 OU/DLC 180112 20190715113741.0 19563810 eng