Sponsored Migration The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States / Edgardo Meléndez.
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TextPublisher: The Ohio State University Press, Description: 1 online resource (281 p.)ISBN: 9780814213414Subject(s): History / Latin America | HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: 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.
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| E184.M5 C47 The Chicanos | E184.M5 H63 Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression | E184.M88 K33 2014 Young American Muslims | E184.P85 M45 2017 Sponsored Migration | E184.S67 B47 2016 Making Refuge | E184.S75 H57 2012 Hispanic migration and urban development | E184.S75 M545 2013 Latining America |
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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.
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