Foreigners Building a Future in Colonial San Juan, 1910.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Throughout the centuries, San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico and a port city, has received an influx of foreigners who have left their footprint within the urban layout. This presentation will address another way of studying the presence of immigrants, within the six neighborhoods of the walled city of San Juan in 1910. Census data is used to locate where they lived and/or their places of business. A database was created to organize information that includes name, age, civil status, sex, color or race, place of birth, type of job, and place of work.

The main goal of this research is the creation of profiles by nationality, paying special attention to trades and professions. The data was transferred to a digital map that permits to distinguish the distribution of foreigners by nationality. With this study, we propose additional lines of research that can incorporate existing data from archaeological projects, a reassessment of foreigners within the city, and their distribution by neighborhood

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects

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Abstract Id(s): 25498