Hispanics and Latinos in New York

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Hispanic and Latino New Yorkers are residents of the state of New York who are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. As of 2013, Hispanics and Latinos of any race were 18.4% of the state's population. [1]

History[]

The first Hispanic presence in New York may have been that of the Portuguese explorer's troops Estêvão Gomes, who served the Castilian Crown. In 1524 Gomes may have entered New York Harbor and seen the Hudson River. The first Hispanic to emigrate to the modern-day New York was the Dominican Juan Rodriguez. He was a member of the crew of the Dutch ship Jonge Tobias, which reached New York City in 1613, and he lived there for a while, being the first non-Native American to reside in the region.[2]

Puerto Rican migration to New York began in the 19th century and became the largest Hispanic group to migrate to the state. This migration increased in 1917 with the enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans,[3] and especially in the 1940s and 1950s.[4]

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References[]

  1. ^ "New York QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2013. Archived from the original on May 16, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Ricardo Kaulessar (October 12, 2021). Records shed light on earliest residents of Hispanic, Latino ancestry in NYC, Delaware. Published on northjersey.com
  3. ^ Jones-Shafroth Act Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. Library of Congress, accessed May 25, 2010.
  4. ^ The Gran Migración Archived 2017-01-20 at the Wayback Machine, Maura Isabel Toro-Morn, Marixsa Alicea, Migration and Immigration: A Global View.

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