04264nam 2200637 450 991079311840332120230814224734.01-5017-6460-81-5017-1616-610.1515/9781501716164(CKB)4100000007002586(OCoLC)1013998153(MdBmJHUP)muse67656(MiAaPQ)EBC5541134(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048906(DE-B1597)503507(DE-B1597)9781501716164(Au-PeEL)EBL5541134(CaPaEBR)ebr11618583(EXLCZ)99410000000700258620181105d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBorderline citizens the United States, Puerto Rico, and the politics of colonial migration /Robert C. McGreeveyIthaca ;London :Cornell University Press,2018.1 online resource (1 online resource.)The United States in the worldPreviously issued in print: 2018.1-5017-1614-X 1-5017-1615-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : migration and empire -- America's Caribbean frontier -- The rise of national status -- Labor networks -- Citizenship and statelessness -- Working people going north -- The Empire State : colonial migrants in New York -- Conclusion : U.S. empire and the boundaries of the nation.Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of US colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various groups-employers, colonial officials, court officers, and labor leaders-policing the borders of the US economy and polity. Borderline Citizens deftly shows the dynamic and contested meaning of American citizenship.At a time when colonial officials sought to limit citizenship through the definition of Puerto Rico as a US territory, Puerto Ricans tested the boundaries of colonial law when they migrated to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland. The conflicts and legal challenges created when Puerto Ricans migrated to the US mainland thus serve, McGreevey argues, as essential, if overlooked, evidence crucial to understanding U.S. empire and citizenship.McGreevey demonstrates the value of an imperial approach to the history of migration. Drawing attention to the legal claims migrants made on the mainland, he highlights the agency of Puerto Rican migrants and the efficacy of their efforts to find an economic, political, and legal home in the United States. At the same time, Borderline Citizens demonstrates how colonial institutions shaped migration streams through a series of changing colonial legal categories that tracked alongside corporate and government demands for labor mobility. McGreevey describes a history shaped as much by the force of US power overseas as by the claims of colonial migrants within the United States.United States in the world.Puerto RicansUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPuerto RicansMigrationsHistory20th centuryCitizenshipUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPuerto RicoColonial influencePuerto RicoEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryinteraction of legal categories, changing political economies, demands of migrants, imperial approach to the history of migration, changing colonial legal categories, the nature of U.S. empire and citizenship.Puerto RicansHistoryPuerto RicansMigrationsHistoryCitizenshipHistory305.868/7295McGreevey Robert1471969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793118403321Borderline citizens3684545UNINA