Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics

458 Pages·2011·5.95 MB·English

Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
Cross-B order Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires, eds.
Duke University Press Durham and London 2011
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appear on the last printed page of this book.
“Undone by Desire: Migration, Sex across Boundaries,
and Collective Destinies in the Greater Caribbean,
1840–1940,” by Lara Putnam, originally appeared
in Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims,
edited by Dirk Hoerder and Donna R. Gabaccia,
forthcoming, by Koninklijke BRILL NV.
Dedicated by Nora Faires:
To all those whom I love and who have supported me in my journey
Dedicated by Dirk Hoerder:
To my friends across North America
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 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-C aribbean 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-S o-F oreign
Relations
Nora Faires  129
5. Greater Southwest North America:
A Region of Historical Integration, Disjunction, and Imposition
Carlos G. Vélez-I báñez with Dirk Hoerder  150
viii Contents
6. Independence and Interdependence:
Caribbean–North American Migration in the Modern Era
Melanie Shell-W eiss  174
7. Migration to Mexico, Migration in Mexico:
A Special Case on the North American Continent
Delia González de Reufels and 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-J iménez  228
PART III. COMPLICATING NARRATIVES
1 0. Migration and the Seasonal Round:
An Odawa Family’s Story
Susan E. Gray  253
1 1. Market Interactions in a Borderland Setting:
A Case Study of the Gila River Pima of Arizona, 1846–1862
Dan Killoren  264
1 2. Paying Attention to Moving Americans:
Migration Knowledge in the Age of Internal Migration, 1930s–1970s
James N. Gregory  277
1 3. The Black Experience in Canada Revisited
Sarah-J ane (Saje) Mathieu  297
1 4. Circumnavigating Controls:
Transborder Migration of Asian-O rigin Migrants
during the Period of Exclusion
Yukari Takai  313
1 5. Migration and Capitalism:
The Rise of the U.S.-M exican Border
John Mason Hart  333
Contents ix
PART IV. CONTEMPORARY AND APPLIED PERSPECTIVES
1 6. Central American Migration and the Shaping of Refugee Policy
María Cristina García  347
1 7. Central American Transmigrants:
Migratory Movement of Special Interest to Diferent Sectors
within and outside Mexico
Rodolfo Casillas-R .  364
1 8. Interrogating Managed Migration’s Model:
A Counternarrative of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program
Kerry Preibisch  377
1 9. 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