Migrants and migration in modern North America : cross-border lives, labor markets, and politics / Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoerder, Dirk.

Faires, Nora Helen.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--North America.

Immigrants.

Cultural pluralism--North America.

Cultural pluralism.

North America--Emigration and immigration--History.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America-within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States-during the past two centuries.

Contents:

Mirando atrás : Mexican immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian Gratton

Through the northern Borderlands : Canada-U.S. migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bruno Ramirez

The making and unmaking of the circum-Caribbean migratory sphere : mobility, sex across boundaries, and collective destinies, 1840-1940 / Lara Putnam

Population movements and the making of Canada-U.S. not-so-foreign relations / Nora Faires

Greater southwest North America : a region of historical integration, disjunction, and imposition / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez with Dirk Hoerder

Independence and interdependence : Caribbean-North American migration in the modern era / Melanie Shell-Weiss

Migration to Mexico, migration in Mexico : a special case on the North American continent / Delia González de Reufels and Dirk Hoerder

The construction of borders : building North American nations, building a continental perimeter, 1890s-1920s / Angelika E. Sauer

The United States-Mexican border as material and cultural barrier / Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez

Migration and the seasonal round : an Odawa family's story / Susan E. Gray

Market interactions in a borderland setting : a case study of the Gila River Pima of Arizona, 1846-1862 / Dan Killoren

Paying attention to moving Americans : migration knowledge in the age of internal migration, 1930s-1970s / James N. Gregory

The Black experience in Canada revisited / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu

Circumnavigating controls : transborder migration of Asian-origin migrants during the period of exclusion / Yukari Takai

Migration and capitalism : the rise of the U.S.-Mexican border / John Mason Hart

Central American migration and the shaping of refugee policy / María Cristina Garcia

Central American transmigrants : migratory movement of special interest to different sectors within and outside Mexico / Rodolfo Casillas-R.

Interrogating managed migration's model : a counternarrative of Canada's seasonal agricultural workers program / Kerry Preibisch

1867 and all that

: teaching the American survey as continental North American history / Angelika Sauer and Catherine O'Donnell.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/arr/4.0/legalcode cc

ISBN:

9786613292278

9781283292276

1283292270

9780822394419

0822394413

OCLC:

757547515

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access