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Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation

Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation

Aranda, Elizabeth M.

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial America

Asian American StudiesGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0742543242
ISBN13: 9780742543249
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Sep 27 2006
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico examines the experiences of incorporation among two groups of middle-class Puerto Ricans: one that currently lives in the U.S. mainland and one that has resettled in Puerto Rico. The analysis focuses on their subjective interpretations of incorporation and the conditions under which they decide to move back and forth between the mainland and island. Findings reveal that migration to the mainland results in educational, occupational and economic gains in the U.S., which also help return migrants re-enter Island labor markets. U.S. settlement brings its own set of struggles. Puerto Ricans see themselves as members of transnational families, yet the struggles of leading dual lives result in settlement decisions that reflect desires to live locally with roots in one place instead of feeling split between the two. Experiences with U.S. racism complicate these decisions, given Puerto Ricans' struggles with racial identity and exclusion in spite of their economic, occupational, and residential integration into mainland society. This study illustrates the conditions under which various patterns of attachments to place-or emotional anchoring-develop, and how these feelings impact future Puerto Rican settlement.

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