An Ethnographic Study of Home/School Role Conflicts of Second Generation Puerto Rican Adolescents

2017 ◽  
pp. 227-251
Author(s):  
Marietta Saravia-Shore ◽  
Herminio Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Home School ◽  
Role Conflicts ◽  
School Role

Making Sense of Disability: Low-Income, Puerto Rican Parents' Theories of the Problem

1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Harry
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
English Only ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Impact

This article reports findings from an ethnographic study of the views of 12 low-income Puerto Rican parents whose children were classified as learning disabled or mildly mentally retarded. Different cultural meanings of disability and normalcy led parents to reject the notion of disability and focus on the impact of family identity, language confusion, and detrimental educational practices on children's school performance. Parents' views were in line with current arguments against labeling and English-only instruction.

Toward Community Empowerment: The Puerto Rican Ganchero

2020 ◽  
pp. 009145092096457
Author(s):  
C. Gelpí-Acosta ◽  
H. Guarino ◽  
E. Benoit ◽  
S. Deren ◽  
A. Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Positive Health

People who inject drugs (PWID) who migrate from Puerto Rico (PR) to New York City (NYC) are at elevated risk for hepatitis C (HCV), HIV and drug overdose. There is an urgent need to identify a sustainable path toward improving the health outcomes of this population. Peer-driven HIV/HCV prevention interventions for PWID are effective in reducing risk behaviors. Additionally, the concept of intravention—naturally occurring disease prevention activities among PWID (Friedman, 2004)—is a suitable theoretical framework to cast and bolster PWID-indigenous risk reduction norms and practices to achieve positive health outcomes. From 2017–2019, we conducted an ethnographic study in the Bronx, NYC to identify the injection risks of migrant Puerto Rican PWID, institutional barriers to risk reduction and solutions to these barriers. Study components included a longitudinal ethnography with 40 migrant PWID (e.g., baseline and exit interviews and monthly face-to-face follow-ups for 12 months), two institutional ethnographies (IEs) with 10 migrants and six service providers, and three focus groups (FGs) with another 15 migrant PWID. Data were analyzed using a grounded theory approach. In this article, we present findings from the IEs and FGs, specifically regarding a promising intravention pathway to promote health empowerment among these migrants that leverages an existing social role within their networks: the PR-indigenous ganchero. A ganchero is a vein-finding expert who is paid with drugs or cash for providing injection services. Ethnographic evidence from this study suggests that gancheros can occupy harm reduction leadership roles among migrant Puerto Rican PWID, adapting standard overdose and HIV/HCV prevention education to the specific experiences of their community. We conclude by noting the culturally appropriate risk reduction service delivery improvements needed to mitigate the health vulnerabilities of migrants and provide a roadmap for improving service delivery and identifying future research avenues.

scholarly journals Resilience of Gendered Spheres in Translational Migration: A Comparison of Two Cultures

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Calderon
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cultural Mores ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The U.S

Sheba George's ethnographic study used participant-observation methods, purposive sampling, and an insider's transnational journey to examine changes in family and social roles that result when nurses from Kerala, India, immigrate to the United States ahead of their husbands. The author concludes that the economic and political gain immigration affords nurses does not translate into enhanced social status for their family in India nor for their husbands in the U.S. when they undergo a gender role transferal from primary breadwinner to homemaker whilst their wives pursue their nursing careers. In a key observation, the author emphasizes that this role transferal also caused shifts in gender structure within the U.S. Kerali community. The purpose of this paper is to offer a review of George's examination of resilience of patriarchal cultural mores and gender roles of Kerali "nurse husbands" in the U.S. and to cross-culturally compare their resilience to that of Puerto Rican men who were born and raised in Puerto Rico before migrating to the US mainland. This comparison is born of George's experience as a first-generation Kerali American and that of this reviewer as a first-generation Puerto Rican American.

Conditional morphology in New York heritage Spanish: General and variable usage patterns

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Martillo Viner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
External Variables ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
The City ◽  
New Yorkers

Abstract This paper analyzes the use of conditional morphology by second-generation Spanish speaking New Yorkers. We consider both overall usage patterns and variation, the latter exclusively in the apodosis of hypothetical utterances where three forms occur: the conditional, the subjunctive, and the indicative. The data are from semi-controlled sociolinguistic interviews with 26 Spanish-English second-generation bilingual participants from New York City. The participants stem from the six largest Spanish-speaking national origins in the city: Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Colombian, and Ecuadorian. The findings show that conditional morphology is active in the grammars of these bilinguals, but variation does manifest between the three aforementioned forms in the apodosis. Furthermore, three of the 10 external variables identified for the investigation are found to be statistically significant in the cohort: level of English skill, level of education, and areal origin.

Second-generation NYC bilinguals’ use of the Spanish subjunctive in obligatory contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Martillo Viner
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Spanish Subjunctive ◽  
Generational Groups

This paper analyzes naturalistic data from second-generation NYC bilinguals on their obligatory subjunctive use. First-generation NYC Spanish speakers serve as the reference model for the nine obligatory semantic & syntactic contexts. A total of 52 consultants are considered, 26 for each generation, from the six primary Spanish-speaking groups in NYC: Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Colombian. The objective is to determine, through quantitative and qualitative investigation, whether the second-generation’s obligatory subjunctive use has changed, and if so, to establish exactly where and how it differs from the first-generation, thus contributing to the variationist-sociolinguistic knowledge of Spanish grammar in bilingual settings. Statistically significant external and internal findings show that the two generational groups do in fact use the obligatory subjunctive differently. Close examination, however, suggests that second-generation bilinguals generally command obligatory subjunctive use, but do exhibit signs of a variable mood grammar.

Belonging and boundaries in Little Guyana: Conflict, culture, and identity in Richmond Hill, New York

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 896-914
Author(s):  
Nazreen S Bacchus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
South Asian American

Research on the assimilation of contemporary second-generation Americans has shown that ethnic enclaves are saturated with several cultural, religious, and transnational amenities that facilitate the process of immigrant integration in the United States. Missing from this research is a discussion of how middle-class, second-generation Americans use urban enclaves as a means of remaining attached to their ethnic identities. One such group with members who has achieved middle-class status and remained culturally attached to their enclave is Indo-Guyanese Americans of Indian Caribbean descent. This ethnographic study examines the ways in which second-generation Indo-Guyanese Americans use familial, cultural, and religious interactions in Little Guyana to create a sense of belonging and community. As the descendants of re-migrants, their multiethnic identities are complicating their assimilation in American society. Their experiences with racialization and social exclusion from white, South Asian American, and non-co-ethnic circles have pushed them toward developing their multiethnic identity. I use the term ethnic restoration to discuss how second-generation Indo-Guyanese Americans are using transnational ethnic consumption, religious institutions, and co-ethnic interactions to validate their ethnic identities and resist racialization. Their engagement in ethno-religious institutions in Richmond Hill is central to this analysis, as they embrace their Indian Caribbean identities more intensely after experiencing racialization. The findings of this research point to the need to understand why middle-class second-generation Americans are ethnically attached to urban enclaves.

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