The Migratory Process

The Migratory Process Appalachia has a large pool of poor white folks: They are usually stationary and not constantly migrating like a large segment of poor Puerto Ricans Thus, there is no significant debate that there is a substantial number of poor people among the Puerto Rican populace. By contrast, there are large pockets of poverty in the Appalachia region and Mississippi delta (comprised mainly of white folks), and the poverty rate for children is above 20 percent amarillonet.com/070999, but the people in these areas are relatively stationary. However, there is significant evidence that the Puerto Rican poor have a relatively high migratory rate, which displaces them from any given permanence, whether residential, job market or school district. At this point, the question is not why this is happening so frequently but only to interject that this happens and, as a result, this migratory drive tends to provide the means to exhaust and waste essential resources; which, in turn, deprives the poor people of adequate housing; and, keeps them from proper positioning in the job market; and disfranchises them from acquiring political skills; and blocks them from getting needed schooling for themselves and their children. And, most of these poor people are the “darker” Puerto Ricans, who tend to sustain some disdain even in some communities where mostly “white” Puerto Ricans live. And, to make their condition more intolerant, there is a high number of undocumented Hispanics, Haitians, and Europeans (especially Slavic), who easily acquire forged documents and pass themselves off as Puerto Ricans. Thus, once these “foreigners” become Puerto Ricans they, quite naturally, become Americans by birth. Certainly, the American society becomes embroiled by this quandary and, ultimately, the correctly innocent Puerto Rican sustains severe penalties to include his exclusion from the mainstream of society.