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Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States by Dirk Hoerder; Nora Faires; Sarah-Jane Mathieu; Jaime R. Aguila; Bruno Ramirez; Lara Putnam; Carlos G. Vlez-Ibaez; Melanie Shell-Weiss; Delia Gonzlez de Ruefuls; Angelika E. Sauer; Omar S. Valerio-Jimnez; Susan E. Gray; Daniel T. Killoren; James N. Gregory; Yukari Takai; John Mason Hart; RodolfoCasillas; Kerry Preibisch; Catherine ODonnell; Brian Gratton; Maria Cristina Garcia is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 cu

Author

Dirk Hoerder; Nora Faires; Sarah-Jane Mathieu; Jaime R. Aguila; Bruno Ramirez; Lara Putnam; Carlos G. Vlez-Ibaez; Melanie Shell-Weiss; Delia Gonzlez de Ruefuls; Angelika E. Sauer; Omar S. Valerio-Jimnez; Susan E. Gray; Daniel T. Killoren; James N. Gregory; Yukari Takai; John Mason Hart; RodolfoCasillas; Kerry Preibisch; Catherine ODonnell; Brian Gratton; Maria Cristina Garcia

Publisher

Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822394419

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology