Title

La Diáspora En La Frontera: Retos Y Oportunidades Para El Estudio Del Orlando Puertorriqueño

Keywords

Florida; Frontier; Migration; New communities; Orlando; Puerto Ricans

Abstract

This essay reviews and analyses the relatively recent but hugely important phenomenon of the Puerto Rican migration to Central Florida, both from the island and from traditional Puerto Rican enclaves such as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. It proposes the application of a new paradigm for the study of Puerto Rican Central Florida, a demographic and social reality whose context and timing differ sharply from those of other Puerto Rican communities. The proposed paradigm recognizes Central Florida as a social and political frontier for the nearly 300,000 Puerto Ricans living in the region. This essay also questions the generalized idea of Central Florida as a happy, semitropical paradise by explaining the numerous challenges and forms of discrimination faced by the growing Orlando Rican population.

Publication Date

12-1-2010

Publication Title

Centro Journal

Volume

22

Issue

1

Number of Pages

33-55

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84857574995 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84857574995

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