Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of IncorporationEmotional 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. |
Contents
Pathways into the Puerto Rican Middle Class | 35 |
The Transnationalization | 81 |
Ethnoracial Marginalization and Cultural Alienation | 105 |
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