On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour and torrential rains that ravaged the United States territory. In the midst of the crisis, several hundred thousand Maria survivors boarded humanitarian flights and cruise ships, seeking refuge on the United States mainland. More than three years later, tens of thousands of post-Maria migrants remain on the mainland as long-term emigres. In this article, we lay the theoretical/conceptual groundwork for researchers and practitioners interested in understanding the experiences of post-Maria migrants. Specifically, we aim to assist readers in thinking deeply about: [1] why many Puerto Ricans relocated, [2] the experiences of post-Maria migrants en movimiento, and [3] how such experiences shape their lives, behavior, and well-being. In understanding the experiences of post-Maria migrants, several theories/constructs emerge as especially salient. These include “push and pull” models, cultural stress theory and its transnational variants, the concept of crisis migration, and models of cumulative risk. We provide a succinct overview of each of these theories/constructs and describe the broad perspectives that serve as a foundational or orienting paradigm for our work (i.e., the life course perspective, the strengths perspective, and an ecodevelopmental framework). Finally, we provide illustrations of how these theories/concepts apply to emerging data from the Adelante Boricua study, an ongoing research project with post-Maria migrant youth and their parents, supported by funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

2017 年 9 月 20 日，飓风玛丽亚作为 4 级飓风登陆波多黎各，持续风速达每小时 155 英里，暴雨肆虐美国领土。在危机中，数十万玛丽亚幸存者登上人道主义航班和游轮，在美国本土寻求避难。三年多后，成千上万的后玛丽亚移民作为长期移民留在大陆。在本文中，我们为有兴趣了解后玛丽亚移民经历的研究人员和从业者奠定了理论/概念基础。具体来说，我们旨在帮助读者深入思考：[1] 为什么许多波多黎各人搬迁，[2] 后玛丽亚移民的经历en movimiento和 [3] 这些经历如何塑造他们的生活、行为和幸福。在理解后玛丽亚移民的经历时，一些理论/结构显得尤为突出。其中包括“推拉”模型、文化压力理论及其跨国变体、危机迁移的概念以及累积风险模型。我们简要概述了这些理论/结构中的每一个，并描述了作为我们工作的基础或定向范式的广泛视角（即生命历程视角、优势视角和生态发展框架）。最后，我们提供了这些理论/概念如何应用于Adelante Boricua的新数据的说明研究，一项正在进行的研究项目，与玛丽亚后移民青年及其父母一起，得到了国家少数民族健康和健康差异研究所的资助。