Hoerder / Faires Migrants and Migration in Modern North America

Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9441-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoerder, Dirk

Faires, Nora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 atrás: 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. Vélez-Ibáñez 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 González 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-Jiménez 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 / María 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

Über Autor(innen)

Dirk Hoerder taught North American social history, the history of global migrations, borderland studies, and the sociology of migrant acculturation at Arizona State University. He is the author of many books, including Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium, also published by Duke University Press. Hoerder lives in Salzburg, Austria.The late Nora Faires was Professor of History and of Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University and co-author of A History of Women in America.