The Movement and Settlement of Puerto Rican Migrants within the United States, 1950-1960

This article presents a concise summary of the geographic movement and settlement of Puerto Ricans within the United States from 1950 to 1960, based on data drawn from the Census taken on the latter date. The Author observes that a shift away from New York City occurred both in terms of migration fr...

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Published in:The International migration review 1968-04, Vol.2 (2), p.40-52
Main Author: Alvarez, José Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Census tracts
Censuses
Cities
Communities
Diasporas
Metropolitan areas
Metropolitan statistical areas
Migrant/Migrants/Migratory
Movement/Movements
Neighborhoods
Population growth
Population migration
Puerto Rico/Puerto Rican/Puerto Ricans
Settlement/Settler/Settlers
United States/US
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Summary:This article presents a concise summary of the geographic movement and settlement of Puerto Ricans within the United States from 1950 to 1960, based on data drawn from the Census taken on the latter date. The Author observes that a shift away from New York City occurred both in terms of migration from Puerto Rico and internal movements between states. This resulted in the development of major Puerto Rican communities in eight other metropolitan areas of the U.S. The Puerto Rican population was found highly mobile within the U.S., especially from neighborhood to neighborhood within the same city and usually in the direction of neighborhoods marked by out-migration of non-Puerto Ricans. The analysis is then extended to the different patterns of settlement outside New York City and the present evolution of the migrant colonias and to the diaspora of a small portion of the Puerto Rican population throughout the U.S. In the final remarks, the Author discusses the future trend of dispersion of the second generation population, especially, and the correlation between economically favored cities and the setlement of Puerto Ricans on the mainland.
ISSN:0197-9183
1747-7379
DOI:10.2307/3092040