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Puerto Rican Diaspora Foodways

Diaspora

⚠ MORE PUERTO RICANS LIVE ON THE US MAINLAND THAN ON THE ISLAND. As US citizens since 1917 they moved without immigration control: the GREAT MIGRATION to NEW YORK from the 1940s built El Barrio and the Bronx and produced NUYORICAN identity, with the cuchifritos counter, the bodega, and the pernil-and-pasteles Christmas in a cold city. Then Chicago (Humboldt Park, and the jibarito sandwich — a Chicago Puerto Rican invention using fried plantain as bread), Philadelphia, Hartford, and after HURRICANE MARÍA in 2017 a very large movement to FLORIDA. ⚠ THE JIBARITO IS RECORDED AS A DIASPORA CREATION, not an island dish.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Puerto Ricans abroad community documented

Languages: Spanish, English

What is recorded

  • More people of Puerto Rican origin live on the United States mainland than on the island. United States citizenship from 1917 permitted movement without immigration control, producing the Great Migration to New York from the 1940s and Nuyorican identity. The jibarito is documented as a Chicago Puerto Rican creation rather than an island dish. Hurricane María in 2017 produced substantial further migration, chiefly to Florida. documented
  • United States citizenship is extended to Puerto Ricans, permitting movement to the mainland without immigration control. documented
  • The Great Migration of Puerto Ricans to New York, producing El Barrio and Nuyorican identity. documented
  • Hurricane María, and the large migration to the mainland — chiefly Florida — that followed. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to American documented

    ⚠ More Puerto Ricans live on the US mainland than on the island; US citizenship since 1917 meant migration without immigration control.

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