Puerto Rican's move to the United States in hope of having a better life. Their journey to the United States is easier than other immigrants because Puerto Ricans are already United States citizens. Therefore, this facilitates their immigration to the U.S. because they have unrestricted access to travel between the two countries. Many Puerto Ricans have various reasons for moving to the United States, but mainly they struggle economically and need to find a job. After living in the United States many Puerto Ricans find that life in the U.S. isn't as easy as they thought so this leads them to go back to the island. According to the analysis on the decline of the Puerto Rican population on the island conducted by the Pew Research Center,
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After Puerto Ricans move to the United States in hopes of a better life, they begin to face a certain amount of realities that they had not accounted for in the beginning. This most likely accounts to why a lot of Puerto Ricans that move to the United States end up returning to the island. In “Out-Migration and Return Migration of Puerto Ricans” , the author, Fernando Ramos uses the 1980 U.S. Census Public Use samples to compare the flow of out-migrations and return migration to Puerto Rico. Even though the data used in this source is from 1980, it still serves to observe the trends that were developing in return migration to Puerto Rico. Ramos makes several observations about the trends in out-migration and in migration. One of the trends that stood out to me the most was the fact that usually people who migrated from Puerto Rico to the United States are less educated than Puerto Ricans who migrated from the United States to Puerto Rico (Ramos 58). A valid point that could be brought up about Glendaliz is that she never attended college. She worked at a JcPenny store at a mall in Puerto Rico and that was her primary source of income. Therefore according to these facts, there is more traffic to the United States because people who struggle economically come to the U.S. trying to find more government assistance, and a better quality of
After Puerto Ricans move to the United States in hopes of a better life, they begin to face a certain amount of realities that they had not accounted for in the beginning. This most likely accounts to why a lot of Puerto Ricans that move to the United States end up returning to the island. In “Out-Migration and Return Migration of Puerto Ricans” , the author, Fernando Ramos uses the 1980 U.S. Census Public Use samples to compare the flow of out-migrations and return migration to Puerto Rico. Even though the data used in this source is from 1980, it still serves to observe the trends that were developing in return migration to Puerto Rico. Ramos makes several observations about the trends in out-migration and in migration. One of the trends that stood out to me the most was the fact that usually people who migrated from Puerto Rico to the United States are less educated than Puerto Ricans who migrated from the United States to Puerto Rico (Ramos 58). A valid point that could be brought up about Glendaliz is that she never attended college. She worked at a JcPenny store at a mall in Puerto Rico and that was her primary source of income. Therefore according to these facts, there is more traffic to the United States because people who struggle economically come to the U.S. trying to find more government assistance, and a better quality of