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

Informationen zum Autor By Elizabeth M. Aranda Klappentext Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico is about Puerto Ricans' struggles of incorporation into U.S. society, and the conditions under which members of the Puerto Rican middle-class move back and forth between the mainland and island. The book illustrates how structures of inequalities based on race, class, and gender affect Puerto Ricans' subjective assessments of incorporation. Issues regarding the racialization of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. reveal that in spite of structural incorporation, Puerto Ricans do not feel like they fully belong in mainland society. These experiences carry implications for future migration and settlement decisions. Zusammenfassung Talks about Puerto Ricans' struggles of incorporation into US society! and the conditions under which members of the Puerto Rican middle-class move back and forth between the mainland and island. This book illustrates how structures of inequalities based on race! class! and gender affect Puerto Ricans' subjective assessments of incorporation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Where is Home? Living Transnational Lives Chapter 2 Class Origins, Modes of Incorporation, and Pathways into the Transnational Middle Class Chapter 3 The Transnationalization of Puerto Rican Families and the Empty Spaces of Migration Chapter 4 Ethnoracial Marginalization and Cultural Alienation Chapter 5 Dual Frames of Reference, Emotional Embeddedness and Patterns of Settlement Within Transnational Social Fields Chapter 6 Conclusion: Weighing Hearts and Minds

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth M. Aranda, Aranda Elizabeth M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2006
• EAN: 9780742543249
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4324-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial; Perspectives on a Multiracial America
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Puerto Rico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples