The Latin Melting Pot Is Boiling Over |
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| Authors: | Morton D. Winsberg |
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| Affiliation: | Morton D. Winsberg, Ph.D., is professor of geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla. 32306. This note is a report on significant research, a project reported in The Changing Demography of Spanish Americans;by A. J. Jaffe, Ruth M. Cullen and Thomas D. Boswell (New York: Academic Press, 1980, xiii and 426 pp., $31). Professor Winsberg reported on his own research in this area in "Housing Segregation of a Predominantly Middle Class Population;Residential Patterns Developed by the Cuban Immigration into Miami, 1950-74,"American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 38, No. 4 (October, 1979), pp. 403–18, and will give a further report on his continuing investigation in a forthcoming issue |
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| Abstract: | A bstract . During the 1970s no area contributed more immigrants to the United States, both legal and illegal, than Latin America. The Latin American population in the U.S. has become the country's fastest growing large minority and unless economic conditions in Latin America improve for its poorer population, these people will continue to enter the U.S. in large numbers. The chaotic social situation in the country's Latin ghettos highlights a grave national problem. A. J. Jaffe, R. M. Cullen and T. D. Boswell of the Research Institute for the Study of Man completed a study of this immigration which deserves far greater attention than it has received. They found that cultural convergence of Latins with the non-Latin White population varied by subgroup, and was heavily dependent upon the volume of immigration of a particular subgroup and the degree of their concentration in this country. |
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