Social Mobility of Puerto Ricans
Education, Occupation, and Income Changes Among Children of Migrants, New York, 1950-1960
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3953644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Kantrowitz (Columbia University School of Social Work; Fordham University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 53 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-9183 • E-ISSN: 1747-7379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3092041 |
| OpenAlex | W2317408439, W3211327524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Upward mobility is possible to an immigrant group if the institutions of the host society are open to social change and the immigrants' culture encourages social mobility. The Author tests his assumption by analyzing the Census statistics of 1950 and 1960 for the New York metropolis concerning Puerto Ricans. The conclusion is that in New York between 1950 and 1960 the children of Puerto Rican migrants, at least, were upwardly mobile: they attained some high school education, certain white collar jobs, and, to a lesser extent, higher income. Puerto Rican parents, however, are stil poor, and so are their childen. But if the experience of the decade studied can be a basis for prediction, the possibility of achieving a social class distribution similar to that of other groups in the city is very real for the Puerto Rican migrants in their own remaining life spans and those of their children. The article examines one metropolitan area. Its finding corroborate those discussed by John J. Macisco, Jr. regarding mobility patterns of the Pueto Ricans in the total United States mainland
Census · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economics · Emigration · Ethnology · Geography · Immigration · Mainland · Metropolitan area · Political science · Population · Puerto rican · Social class · Social mobility · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gender Studies
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 1986 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |