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Sep 27, 2024 · González said that migration from the island to Pennsylvania began increasing dramatically about 2015 because of economic forces when companies began pulling their manufacturing operations from the island and taking them to other countries where the labor was cheaper.
- Valerie Russ
Sep 1, 2018 · Commerce in tobacco and sugar tied Philadelphia to the Caribbean; consequently, Puerto Rican cigar makers worked in the city, in part to avoid repression at home or to support independence. This community was small. The 1910 census, the first to identify Puerto Ricans, revealed a community numbering in the dozens.
Philadelphia attracted approximately twelve thousand Puerto Rican migrants during the 1950s and soon hosted the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the continental United States, while Camden drew an additional six thousand migrants.
Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans. By Alyssa Ribeiro. The centuries-long relationship between the Philadelphia region and Puerto Rico unfolded in four interrelated areas: economic links, political channels, personal networks, and cultural exchange. Several dynamics shaped those connections over time.
Sep 7, 2021 · While there have been Spanish speakers in Central Pennsylvania as early as the American Revolution, the population greatly increased during the 1940s, when many Puerto Ricans came to Pennsylvania as temporary farm laborers. Colloquially, they were known as tomateros — tomato pickers.
Oct 28, 2022 · Puerto Ricans began to settle in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country due in part to farmers’ demands for labor in the 1940s and 1950s. Puerto Ricans moved to the area for reasons of their own, seeing the region as a place to pursue their economic progress and religious expression.
In this lecture, the speakers will share those stories of migration, personal sacrifice, racism, and the formation of communities that cross cultural lines. Living alongside Mennonites in a place shaped by Pennsylvania Dutch history, Puerto Ricans have found new identities as Dutchiricans.
