Study Report

Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell, Melanie Escue, Maritza Novoa-Hadley, and Alessandra Rosa. 2020. Report on Puerto-Rican Post-Disaster Migration Survey. Prepared for Mujeres Restauradas Por Dios.

Study Publications

Aranda, Elizabeth and Rebecca Blackwell. “The Racializing Work of Cultural Narratives: An Analysis of Colorblind Frames of Puerto Rican Climate Migrants.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Forthcoming 2023. 

Blackwell, Rebecca, Elizabeth Aranda, and Alessandra Rosa. 2023. “’We always remember the island’: Puerto Rican climate migrants’ emotional meanings of home.” Emotion, Space & Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100974.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell, Melanie Escue, and Alessandra Rosa. 2023. “Cascading Disasters: The Impact of Hurricane Maria and Covid-19 on Post-Disaster Puerto Rican Migrants’ Adaptation and Integration in Florida.” Latino Studies, 21:138-161 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00390-3

Related Publications

Blackwell, Rebecca, Alessandra Rosa, and Elizabeth Aranda. 2022. “¿Nuestro Nuevo Hogar? [Our New Home?]: Examining Puerto Rican Migration and Conceptions of Home, Placemaking, and Belonging.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, 9 (2): 208-229.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Rebecca Blackwell & Alessandra Rosa. (2021). “‘Even if They Promise, You Know It Won’t Happen’: Ontological Insecurity from Overlapping Collective and Cultural Trauma.” CENTRO Journal, vol. XXXIII, No. 1: 89-111.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Juan Arroyo-Flores & Alessandra Rosa. (2019). “Report: The Puerto Rican vote nationwide and in Florida”

Arroyo-Flores, Juan, Alessandra Rosa & Elizabeth Aranda. (2019). “Understanding Puerto Rican voting in the United States”

Aranda, Elizabeth & Alessandra Rosa. (2019). “Puerto Ricans unite against Rosselló and more than a decade of cultural trauma”

Rosa, Alessandra (2016). “Student Activists’ Affective Strategies during the 2010-2011 Siege of  the University of Puerto Rico”. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Vol. 36,  Issue11/12: 824-842 doi: 10.1108/IJSSP-12-2015-0149

Aranda, Elizabeth and Fernando Rivera. (2016). “Puerto Rican Families in Central Florida: Prejudice, Discrimination, and their Implications for Successful Integration.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 4, 1: 57-85.

Aranda, Elizabeth, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal. (2014). Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City. Lynne Rienner.

Aranda, Elizabeth (2009). “Puerto Rican Migration and Settlement in South Florida: Ethnic Identities and Transnational Spaces.” In Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship. Edited by Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez, Ramón Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Aranda, Elizabeth. (2008). “Class Origins, Modes of Incorporation, and Pathways into the Puerto Rican Transnational MiddleClass.” American Behavioral Scientist, November, 52 (3): 426-456.

_______. (2007). Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

_______. (2006). “Struggles of Incorporation Among the Puerto Rican Middle Class.” The Sociological Quarterly 48, 2 (2007):199-228.