LEADER 04264nam 2200637 450 001 9910793118403321 005 20230814224734.0 010 $a1-5017-6460-8 010 $a1-5017-1616-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501716164 035 $a(CKB)4100000007002586 035 $a(OCoLC)1013998153 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67656 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5541134 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048906 035 $a(DE-B1597)503507 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501716164 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5541134 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11618583 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007002586 100 $a20181105d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBorderline citizens $ethe United States, Puerto Rico, and the politics of colonial migration /$fRobert C. McGreevey 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource.) 225 1 $aThe United States in the world 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5017-1614-X 311 $a1-5017-1615-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aBorderline Citizens explores the intersection of US colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various groups-employers, colonial officials, court officers, and labor leaders-policing the borders of the US economy and polity. Borderline Citizens deftly shows the dynamic and contested meaning of American citizenship.At a time when colonial officials sought to limit citizenship through the definition of Puerto Rico as a US territory, Puerto Ricans tested the boundaries of colonial law when they migrated to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland. The conflicts and legal challenges created when Puerto Ricans migrated to the US mainland thus serve, McGreevey argues, as essential, if overlooked, evidence crucial to understanding U.S. empire and citizenship.McGreevey demonstrates the value of an imperial approach to the history of migration. Drawing attention to the legal claims migrants made on the mainland, he highlights the agency of Puerto Rican migrants and the efficacy of their efforts to find an economic, political, and legal home in the United States. At the same time, Borderline Citizens demonstrates how colonial institutions shaped migration streams through a series of changing colonial legal categories that tracked alongside corporate and government demands for labor mobility. McGreevey describes a history shaped as much by the force of US power overseas as by the claims of colonial migrants within the United States. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 606 $aPuerto Ricans$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPuerto Ricans$xMigrations$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPuerto Rico$xColonial influence 607 $aPuerto Rico$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 610 $ainteraction of legal categories, changing political economies, demands of migrants, imperial approach to the history of migration, changing colonial legal categories, the nature of U.S. empire and citizenship. 615 0$aPuerto Ricans$xHistory 615 0$aPuerto Ricans$xMigrations$xHistory 615 0$aCitizenship$xHistory 676 $a305.868/7295 700 $aMcGreevey$b Robert$01471969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793118403321 996 $aBorderline citizens$93684545 997 $aUNINA