ID - 139594205 TI - Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States PY - 2018 SN - 9780814275108 9780814275122 0814275109 0814275125 9780814213414 PB - Ohio State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Migrant labor KW - Puerto Ricans KW - Social conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - Migrations. KW - United States KW - Puerto Rico KW - Politics and government KW - Colonial influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139594205 AB - Sponsored Migration places Puerto Rico's migration policy in its historical context, examining the central role the Puerto Rican government played in encouraging and organizing migration during the postwar period. Meléndez sheds an important new light on the many ways in which the government intervened in the movement of its people: attempting to provide labor to U.S. agriculture, incorporating migrants into places like New York City, seeking to expand the island's air transportation infrastructure, and even promoting migration in the public school system. One of the first scholars to explore this topic in depth, Meléndez illuminates how migration influenced U.S. and Puerto Rican relations from 1898 onward. ER -