Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 104 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesDemographySociologyHistorical DemographyPopulation StudiesSocial DemographyCensus HistoryDemographic AnalysisDemographic ChangeDemographic HistoryPopulation ChangePopulation GrowthCensus Migration DataDemographic Change AnalysisDemographic Effects Of MigrationPopulation Growth RatesPuerto Rican HistoryPuerto Rican MigrationSocioeconomic Stratification
The volume draws on U.S. census data to examine Puerto Rico’s demographic and social changes during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period marked by a sustained decline in socioeconomic indicators. The study analyzes population growth, demographic shifts, and migration patterns between Puerto Rico and the United States, including immigration and the diaspora of Puerto Ricans born abroad. The period saw a sharp rise in unemployment, poverty, social inequities, substance abuse, and crime.
The information presented in this volume is based largely on U.S. census data primarily from the 1970 1980 and 1990 censuses of population and housing....[It] focuses on the demographic and social changes that occurred in Puerto Rico during the decade of the 1980s and the early 1990s when the sustained decline of a series of socioeconomic indicators reached alarming levels. A disturbing rise in the unemployment rate high poverty rates sustained social inequities and a sharp increase in substance abuse and crime were characteristics of the period. These transformations and their policy implications can only be understood in their historical context. There are chapters on population growth and demographic changes migration between Puerto Rico and the United States immigration and the population born outside Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican population in the United States. (EXCERPT)