The Reasons Behind Puerto Rican Migration to America Essay -- History

The Reasons Behind Puerto Rican Migration to AmericaAs a Puerto Rican who was innate(p) and raised in Hartford, I did not think much about(predicate) how or why my parents are here in the United States. It was afterward reading the articles in Hist 247 registerer Latinos in the USA that I began to interrogate the reasons and conditions of my grandparents migration. Many think that Puerto Ricans began to migrate to the United States after 1898 when the United States took oer Puerto anti-racketeering law but Puerto Ricans have been migrating to the US since 1840s. The Puerto Rican migration is best described in two different experiences. The first experience from later 19th coulomb to early 20th Century is the migration collectible to the economic and social situations in Puerto Rico while the second experience from 1940s to the present is mostly due to the chain migration and the thought that the United States will offer them a emend life. Both waves of migration brought new ex periences to the United States like the struggle of identity, politics, and power. The fundamental motive(prenominal) for leaving Puerto Rico was economic. The article The Genesis of the Puerto Rican Migration mentions that during 1878-1879 there was a major shift in capitalist mode from haciendas to sugar plantations. Around 1870 braceros and peasants began to transmit the island to go to Santo Domingo, Cuba, etc... Under North American domination 1898-1901, Puerto Rico became an intricacy in which allowed for control of the means of production in the colony and the change of the sugar islands into exporters of products necessitateed in the metropolis (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueo 348). To the United States, Puerto Rico became a means to gain more capital and power in the Caribbean. I agree with C... ...which our early ancestors had to appoint with we still have to deal with like discrimination, stereotypes, and unemployment but not as badly as they did. We need to bec ome one instead of trying to compete with each separate in order to achieve what our ancestors wanted. Our politics have gone from mannikin politics, ethnic politic to identity politics. We need to keep fighting in order to be represented in government and for our voices to be heard. BibliographyBarradas, Efrain. How to Read Bernardo Vega Hist. 247 ReaderCruz, Jose E. Identity and Power Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity. Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1998.Dietz, James. Migration and internationalistic Corporations The Puerto Rican Model of Development Hist. 247 ReaderFigueroa, Luis, ed. His. 247 Reader. Department of History. Trinity College. Spring 1999 edition.