With an introduction by Bill Spriggs.

Coffee and tea will be served.

Please join author Marie Mora for a discussion of Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes Among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans: La Crisis Boricua.

At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans, the island confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes Among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans represents the first comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic consequences of “La Crisis Boricua” for Puerto Ricans on the island and mainland, including massive out-migration, a shrinking and rapidly aging population, a deteriorating infrastructure, and crushing public debt.

About the authors:

Marie T. Mora is professor of economics and associate vice provost for faculty diversity at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Alberto Dávila is professor of economics and associate dean for administration, graduate studies and research at the Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Havidán Rodríguez is professor and president of the University at Albany, State University of New York.