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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464024503321

Titolo

Entangling migration history : borderlands and transnationalism in the United States and Canada / / edited by Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5089-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Contested Boundaries

Disciplina

304.8/73

Soggetti

Transnationalism

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration

Canada Emigration and immigration

United States Boundaries Canada

Canada Boundaries United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund -- Canada and the Atlantic world: migration from a hemispheric perspective, 1500-1800 / Jose C. Moya -- A spatial grammar of migration in the Canadian-American borderlands at the turn of the Twentieth-century / Randy William Widdis -- Mexicans, Canadians, and the reconfiguration of continental migrations, 1915-1965 / Bruno Ramirez -- Sexual self: morals policing and the expansion of the U.S. Immigration Bureau at America's early Twentieth-century borders / Grace Peña Delgado -- Out of one borderland, many: the 1907 anti-Asian riots and the spatial dimensions of race and migration in the Canadian-U.S. Pacific borderlands / David C. Atkinson -- Bridging the Pacific: diplomacy and the control of Japanese transmigration via Hawaii, 1890-1910 / Yukari Takai -- Entangled communities: German Lutherans in Ontario and North America, 1880-1930 / Benjamin Bryce -- Religious borderlands and transnational networks: the North American Mennonite



underground press in the 1960's / Janis Thiessen -- Epilogue: entanglements and the practice of migration history / Erika Lee.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection uses current cross-boundary theories in applied case studies to better understand how people, institutions, and ideas permeate geopolitical lines in North America.