Migrants and migration in modern North America : cross-border lives, labor markets, and politics
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Migrants and migration in modern North America : cross-border lives, labor markets, and politics
Duke University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations from Central America as well. In the introduction, Dirk Hoerder provides a sweeping historical overview of North American societies in the Atlantic world. He also develops and advocates what he and Nora Faires call "transcultural societal studies," an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies that combines migration research across disciplines and at the local, regional, national, and transnational levels. The contributors examine the movements of diverse populations across North America in relation to changing cultural, political, and economic patterns. They describe the ways that people have fashioned cross-border lives, as well as the effects of shifting labor markets in facilitating or hindering cross-border movement, the place of formal and informal politics in migration processes and migrants' lives, and the creation and transformation of borderlands economies, societies, and cultures. This collection offers rich new perspectives on migration in North America and on the broader study of migration history. Contributors. Jaime R. Aguila. Rodolfo Casillas-R., Nora Faires, Maria Cristina Garcia, Delia Gonzales de Reufels, Brian Gratton, Susan E. Gray, James N. Gregory, John Mason Hart, Dirk Hoerder, Dan Killoren, Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu, Catherine O'Donnell, Kerry Preibisch, Lara Putnam, Bruno Ramirez, Angelika Sauer, Melanie Shell-Weiss, Yukari Takai, Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez, Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez
Table of Contents
List of Maps xi
Preface / Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires xiii
Introduction. Migration, People's Lives, Shifting and Permeable Borders: The North American and Caribbean Societies in the Atlantic World / Dirk Hoerder 1
Part I. Intersocietal Migrations
1. Mirando atras: Mexican Immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian Gratton 49
2. Through the Northern Borderlands: Canada-U.S. Migrations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Bruno Ramirez 76
3. The Making and Unmaking of the Circum-Caribbean Migratory Sphere: Mobility, Sex across Boundaries, and Collective Destinies, 1840-1940 / Lara Putnam 99
Part II. Connecting Borderlands, Littorals, and Regions
4. Population Movements and the Making of Canada-U.S. Not-So-Foreign Relations / Nora Faires 129
5. Greater Southwest North America: A Region of Historical Integration, Disjunction, and Imposition / Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez with Dirk Hoerder 150
6. Independence and Interdependence: Caribbean-North American Migration in the Modern Era / Melanie Shell-Weiss 174
7. Migration to Mexico, Migration in Mexico: A Special Case on the North American Continent / Delia Gonzalez de Ruefels with Dirk Hoerder 188
8. The Construction of Borders: Building North American Nations, Building a Continental Perimeter, 1890s-1920s / Angelika E. Sauer 210
9. The United States-Mexican Border as Material and Cultural Barrier / Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez 228
Part III. Complicating Narratives
10. Migration and the Seasonal Round: An Odawa Family's Story / Susan E. Gray 253
11. Market Interactions in a Borderland Setting: A Case Study of the Gila River Pima of Arizona, 1846-1862 / Dan Killoren 264
12. Paying Attention to Moving Americans: Migration Knowledge in the Age of Internal Migration, 1930s-1970s / James N. Gregory 277
13. The Black Experience in Canada Revisited / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu 297
14. Circumnavigating Controls: Transborder Migration of Asian-Origin Migrants during the Period of Exclusion / Yukari Takai 313
15. Migration and Capitalism: The Rise of the U.S.-Mexican Border / John Mason Hart 333
Part IV. Contemporary and Applied Perspectives
16. Central American Migration and the Shaping of Refugee Policy / Maria Cristina Garcia 347
17. Central American Transmigrants: Migratory Movement of Special Interest to Different Sectors within and outside Mexico / Rodolfo Casillas-R. 364
18. Interrogating Managed Migration's Model: A Counternarrative of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program / Kerry Preibisch 377
19. 1867 and All That . . .: Teaching the American Survey as Continental North American History / Angelika Sauer and Catherine O'Donnell 391
About the Contributors 399
Index 401
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