PUERTO RICANS TODAY

I was not born in Puerto Rico;
Puerto Rico was born in me.
Ode to the Diasporican, Maria "Mariposa" Fernandez

More Puerto Ricans live in the U.S. than in Puerto Rico. Today transnational migration, movement back and forth between the U.S. and Puerto Rico, is a key characteristic of the Puerto Rican experience. “Puerto Ricans live on either side of a divided border that they transgress and remap continually in their everyday language, popular music, visual arts, and creative literature.  It is this straddling of two linguistic and geopolitical frontiers that most precisely defines cultural identity in the Diaspora.”*“Rethinking the Diaspora entails approaching the nation as a dispersed and fragmented subject that flows across various spaces, classes, and other social locations.”**