ent home in areas such as Pennsylvania. In several cases of Puerto Rican migration the use of informal contacts through family and friends was a necessity. Through informal contacts many migrant farm workers settled in areas like Philadelphia and New York until they could establish a job that would allow them to send for their families. If not through informal contacts other migrants, both male and female, just came directly from Puerto Rico in search of jobs. During the post-World War II period, the Philadelphia region provided jobs for many Puerto Rican migrants, which in turn encouraged more migration. "The Puerto Rican community grew from fewer than 2,000 to more than 14,000 during the 1950s, as Philad
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