Download or read book Study of the Acculturation Process and Its Effects on Two Hundred Puerto Rican Children Born and Brought Up in New York City written by Carmen M. Miranda and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puerto Rican Families in New York City written by Lloyd Henry Rogler and published by Waterfront Press (Washington, DC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the lives of 100 intergenerationally linked Puerto Rican families living in New York City. Each family consisted of two generations: the mothers and fathers in the parent generation and their married child and spouse in the child generation. Subjects investigated included the experiences of the migrant parent generation in their island home, their migration and settlement in New York City, and the experiences of their children, raised in the United States. Also investigated was the impact of the two generations' different life experiences upon the transmission of sociocultural characteristics from parents to their children and upon the structure of the relationship between the parent and married child. Among the major findings were the following: (1) intergenerational differences between the parents and their married children were pervasive and strong; (2) the greatest intergenerational change occurred in socioeconomic status, then in the language used, then in values; (3) the least change occurred in the subjective elements describing self-concept and bicultural preferences; (4) age at arrival in New York City and level of education were important determinants of ethnic identity; (5) when parents and their children were socialized in the same culture, or when they were similar in educational level, intergenerational continuity increased; and (6) intergenerational differences in early socialization settings and in educational attainment had no effect upon the strength of intergenerational solidarity. (CMG)
Download or read book Prospects for Acculturation of New York City s Puerto Rican Population written by Anthony Tobin Laying and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Migration and Acculturative Stress on Puerto Rican and Mexican American Parents and Their Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiple case studies discussed in this work exemplify the struggles that are faced by those individuals who migrate to the mainland United States from Mexico and Puerto Rico, and the impact that these experiences might have on the parenting experiences and ultimately the children. The psychological effects of the trauma that might occur through the migration and acculturation process will be understood through the theories of Bowlby, Kohut, and Winnicott. These theories are discussed in an effort to provide a framework for conceptualizing the problems that might arise as a result of stress and trauma of migration and acculturation. They focus on the early primary parent/child dyad and the impact that this relationship has upon the child's psychological development.Literature that discusses the aforementioned topic is elaborated upon in this work with an emphasis on the cultural issues that might impact both the migration and the acculturation process. Such variables as motivation for migration, the journey to the U.S., the proximity variable, as well as powerful cultural values are outlined in order to more clearly grasp the problems. An examination of the host culture and its influence on the acculturation process is also addressed, as this is an equally impacting variable. Poverty, racism, and marginalization are powerful variables that affect the population of migrants, particularly those who come to the U.S. without documentation, thus issues of discrimination experienced by Latino migrants is addressed. The uneven rates of acculturation within a family, as well as gender issues also impact the process and intensify problems.Three families are portrayed in this work. I provided clinical services to the families for approximately one year, during which time individual therapy, play therapy, family therapy and classroom interventions were included in the treatment.Two of the families portrayed migrated to the U.S. from Mexico, neither with documentation. They came with very young children, and the experiences that caused them to leave their homeland, the migration experiences, and their experiences of acculturating to the U.S. have traumatically impacted both parents and children. The family struggles can be seen in the children. The children were referred for treatment by their daycare providers because they displayed unusual and disturbing behavior in the classroom.The third family is a Puerto Rican family. The concept of cross-generational effects of migration and acculturative stress are examined through the portrayal of this family. Though the family has lived in Chicago for forty years, the impact of loss of homeland, as well as cultural differences and marginalization can be understood through the family experience.The primary focus of this work is the portrayal of the family story. Through the case study method, an experiential exposure to the work of the therapist and the family story is more personally and poignantly depicted. Within the psychological framework of attachment, self development, and the holding environment, the impact of stress and trauma of this type is explored.
Download or read book The Stranger is Our Own written by Joseph P. Fitzpatrick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J. -- priest, internationally-acclaimed scholar, activist--was intensely involved in the ongoing studies of the Puerto Rican people, their culture, and their problems as migrants in the U.S. mainland.The Stranger Is Our Own contains Fitzpatrick's personal memoir, as well as a collection of articles, papers, lectures and talks that chronicle his "bittersweet journey" with Puerto Rican migrants. A consultant to religious, political, education and social leaders on the issues of migration, assimilation, inter-group relations and social justice, Father Fitzpatrick helped shape governmental and Church policies at both the local and national level. He continued his active involvement until his death in 1995 at the age of 82.
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Study 1953 1957 written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education. Puerto Rican Study and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Migrant in New York City written by Lawrence Royce Chenault and published by New York : Russell & Russell. This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Conversations written by Ellen Bigler and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educator and anthropologist Bigler examines the furor over multicultural education in one upstate New York community. She tracks the city's struggle with change through conversations with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders. She also reviews the background of working-class Puerto Ricans moving from mainland metropolitan areas and finding a discourse of exclusion. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book A Study of the Acculturation Experiences of Puerto Rican Migrant Women written by Catalina V. Cabán-Owen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belonging to Puerto Rico and America written by Abigail Stahl McNamee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Background; Introduction: Children as Cultural and Ethnic Beings; Children of Immigrant Families; Children as Conceptual Thinkers; Asking Puerto Rican Children about Puerto Ricanness; Patterns in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness; The Development of the Childrens' Overall Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness; The Importance of Homeland; The Importance of Family Ties; The Importance of Physical Appearance; The Importance of Language; The Importance of the Specialness of Puerto Rican People; The Importance of Prejudice; The Importance of Safety; Thinking about the Children's Thinking and Thinking about Application; Index.
Download or read book The Future is Now written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education. Puerto Rican Study and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exposing Prejudice written by Bonnie Urciuoli and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urciuolis award-winning book explores how language and the social construction of race, class, and ethnicity shape the lives of working-class Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Her reflexive ethnographic study is a combination of two absorbing features: her analyses of language and power relations based on key principles in semiotic and linguistic anthropology, paired with the authentic voices of individuals who share their lived experiences of speaking Spanish and English. The subjects conversations, interview responses, and anecdotes are saturated with ideas about what correct English means to them. Through these extended transcripts readers gain insight about languages role in cultural dynamics that tangle minority populations in challenges, such as limiting where individuals and families live and work. Urciuolis provocative research and fieldwork give readers a rich understanding of language as the domain in which racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies are experienced.
Download or read book The Newcomers written by Oscar Handlin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puerto Rican Citizen written by Lorrin Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City’s most complex and distinctive migrant communities. In Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions—historical, racial, political, and economic—that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and first-person accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the rich history of a group that is still largely invisible to many scholars. At the center of Puerto Rican Citizen are Puerto Ricans’ own formulations about political identity, the responses of activists and ordinary migrants to the failed promises of American citizenship, and their expectations of how the American state should address those failures. Complicating our understanding of the discontents of modern liberalism, of race relations beyond black and white, and of the diverse conceptions of rights and identity in American life, Thomas’s book transforms the way we understand this community’s integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in twentieth-century America.
Download or read book Alcohol Abuse and Acculturation Among Puerto Ricans in the United States written by Héctor Luis Díaz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details an exploratory research study that was conducted to examine the associations between acculturation, stress, alcohol consumption and other variables in a sample of 100 Puerto Rican alcohol users residing in the state of Massachusetts. The study relied on a cross sectional survey and a non probability sample. The data collected included acculturation scores, acculturation stress scores, data on the use of alcohol and other drugs, and demographic information. Comparisons were made among sample subjects based on gender, place of birth, acculturation levels, and educational levels. No statistically significant differences were found among subjects in the low, partial and high acculturation categories in terms of their levels of acculturative stress, or their frequency and amount of alcohol consumption. Significant associations were found, however, between stress and alcohol and illegal drug use. Findings suggest that the associations between alcohol/drug use and stress were significantly stronger among female and United States-born subjects. Study findings also suggest differences between Puerto Rican and other Latino alcohol users in the United States. hypotheses. For this reason, after exploring the associations between a number of variables, the book concludes by providing research ideas and by recommending 12 hypotheses to be tested in future research. A highly relevant and valuable contribution to the understanding of alcohol abuse among Puerto Ricans in the United States... Every effort must be made to ensure that the findings of studies like this are properly disseminated.
Download or read book On Becoming Nuyoricans written by Angela Anselmo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Becoming Nuyoricans takes an intimate look at two sisters' experiences growing up as part of the first generation of female Puerto Ricans born and raised in New York during the 1950s and 1960s. This generation of Puerto Ricans, also referred to as «Nuyoricans», played a critical role in helping to define unique issues of race, assimilation, and equity for immigrants who were not white Europeans (African Americans notwithstanding) in a society that defined itself as a «melting pot». This book also examines critical issues related to community, home, class, values, motivation, and identity that have played a role in molding who those women are today. In essence, On Becoming Nuyoricans provides an important look at a pivotal period in American society as depicted in these sisters' narratives and an analysis of their recollections.
Download or read book The Puerto Ricans written by Ruby Rohrlich and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
