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
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84857574995 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84857574995
STARS Citation
Martínez-Fernández, Luis, "La Diáspora En La Frontera: Retos Y Oportunidades Para El Estudio Del Orlando Puertorriqueño" (2010). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 596.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/596