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Virginia Subway Map

editor — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:20:00 +0000

Virginia Latino Migration in the Contemporary Era Until World War II, Virginia had been an area historically defined by black and white dichotomies, with no previous history of Latino settlement. International migration dates back to the 1950s, allowing for dramatic population growth over the last few decades. Around this time, the Latino presence emerged across northern Virginia, with international civil servants coming to work in post-Bretton Woods institutions in Washington, DC.1 These early arrivals would prove critical to the emergence of an informal, gendered labor-recruitment cycle that brought thousands of Central American women to the region to fill child care,

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South Carolina Subway Map

editor — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 06:30:00 +0000

Latinos in South Carolina in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Despite the long-term Latino presence in South Carolina and the ongoing connections between South Carolina and Latin America, it was not until the late twentieth century that the state saw the arrival of large numbers of Latino migrants. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, South Carolina’s Latino population increased by 342 percent between 1990 and 2005 (from roughly 30,000 to 135,000).2 As a smaller state, South Carolina has not attracted the number of Latino migrants seen by the neighboring states of Georgia and North Carolina, but their

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South Carolina Metro Map

editor — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Colonial South Carolina The Latino presence in South Carolina dates to the early sixteenth century. Spanish exploration of the region of present-day South Carolina began when Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, a sugar planter and official in the Spanish colony on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic), commissioned Pedro de Salazar and Francisco Gordillo to search for new sources of indigenous labor for Spanish colonies in the Caribbean in 1514 and 1521, respectively. The explorers landed somewhere between present-day Georgia and Cape Fear, North Carolina. A few years later, De Ayllon was made adelantado (governor) of Spain’s La Florida and

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