Blurred borders [[electronic resource] ] : transnational migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States / / Jorge Duany

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457617103321
• Autore: Duany Jorge
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-4696-0279-2; 0-8078-6937-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Collana: The new Cold War history
• Disciplina: 304.8/730729
• Soggetti: West Indians - United States; West Indians - Puerto Rico; Transnationalism; Electronic books.; Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration; United States Emigration and immigration; Puerto Rico Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Crossing Borders and Boundaries in the Hispanic Caribbean -- CHAPTER ONE: Rethinking Transnationalism: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Practical Problems -- CHAPTER TWO: In the Entrails of the Monster: A Historical Overview of Hispanic Caribbean Migration to the United States -- CHAPTER THREE: The Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Diasporas: A Comparative Approach -- CHAPTER FOUR: A Transnational Colonial Migration: Puerto Rico's Farm Labor Program -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping Identity Discourses among Middle-Class Puerto Rican Immigrants -- CHAPTER SIX: Revisiting the Exception: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond the Rafters: Recent Trends and Projections in Cuban Migration -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Los Países Transnational Migration from the Dominican Republic -- CHAPTER NINE: The Dominican Diaspora to Puerto Rico: A Transnational Perspective -- CHAPTER TEN: Transnational Crossroads: The ; Circulation of People and Money in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic -- Conclusion: How Do Borders Blur? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.