Women's Leadership in Struggles over Welfare, Citizenship Rights, and Decolonization in the Puerto Rican Diaspora Available to Purchase

This chapter explores the role of Puerto Rican social workers in the United States who became advocates for migrant clients through their work for the Migration Division of the Puerto Rican Department of Labor and its offices in the United States. It examines the creation of the social service section of the Migration Division in which social workers developed new casework practices with migrant clients and served as intermediaries between migrant clients and US social welfare agencies. Furthermore, the chapter examines how Puerto Rican social workers used their newfound status as migration experts to advocate for Puerto Rican rights in the United States and Puerto Rico.