The Puerto Rican School Dropout: A Study of Thirty Cases Known to Catholic Charities, Lower Manhattan District, 1960-1963
Abstract
In general the Puerto Rican immigrant, like his European predecessors, abandoned his homeland to come to the United States to find a better life for himself and his children. Twenty-five thousand arrive each month not in the teeming nineteenth and early twentieth- century steerage ships but on the endless tourist flights out of San Juan five hours from The International Airport.Unlike his predecessors, the Puerto Rican finds it more difficult to climb up the ladder of success, for he comes to a land in full economic development where technology and automation are wiping out those jobs filled by unskilled and semi-skilled workers. He is discriminated against and soon finds that a desire for a job and willingness "to work hard" or "to do anything" can no longer guarantee success in seeking a job, he must be able to do something. Like the Negro, he is often the last one hired and the first one fired. As time goes on his children, seeing a pattern of unemployment in the home senses a feeling of helplessness which may influence their attitude toward the value of school.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Religion
Recommended Citation
Riano R., Nestor, "The Puerto Rican School Dropout: A Study of Thirty Cases Known to Catholic Charities, Lower Manhattan District, 1960-1963" (1964). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050532.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050532
