Migrants and Migration in Modern North America

Dirk Hoerder taught North American social history, the history of global migrations, borderland studies, and the sociology of migrant acculturation at Arizona State University. He is the author of many books, including Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium, also published by Duke University Press. Hoerder lives in Salzburg, Austria.The late Nora Faires was Professor of History and of Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University and co-author of A History of Women in America.

“For such a large topic, each contributor does an excellent job of summarizing his or her field, and the book comes together to present a swirling depiction of relocating populations that is complex yet understandable…. Overall, it is a well-written, enlightening account of dozens of population movements across modern North America that puts together current scholarship on migration in an interesting, readable manner.” - Zachary Adams (Southwestern Historical Quarterly) “The introductory essay by Hoerder… is exemplary…. Replete with innovative maps, his account decries the ‘Westward ho’ trope of the continent’s migration history distilled into an advance of civilization from the Atlantic coast across the prairies, to the neglect of population movements in the northern and southern US borderlands and of trans-Pacific immigration.” (Population and Development Review) “The significance of creating scholarly dialogue between the ever-expanding fields of migration history in the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, Central America, and the United States, not to mention studies of the southwestern borderlands, should not be overlooked. For scholars already well versed in current migration theory, this comparative aspect represents the volume’s greatest strength.” - Matthew Casey (Hispanic American Historical Review)

• List of Maps xiPreface / Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires xiiiIntroduction. Migration, People's Lives, Shifting and Permeable Borders: The North American and Caribbean Societies in the Atlantic World / Dirk Hoerder 1Part I. Intersocietal Migrations1. Mirando atrÁs: Mexican Immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian Gratton 492. Through the Northern Borderlands: Canada-U.S. Migrations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Bruno Ramirez 763. The Making and Unmaking of the Circum-Caribbean Migratory Sphere: Mobility, Sex across Boundaries, and Collective Destinies, 1840–1940 / Lara Putnam 99Part II. Connecting Borderlands, Littorals, and Regions4. Population Movements and the Making of Canada-U.S. Not-So-Foreign Relations / Nora Faires 1295. Greater Southwest North America: A Region of Historical Integration, Disjunction, and Imposition / Carlos G. VÉlez-IbÁÑez with Dirk Hoerder 1506. Independence and Interdependence: Caribbean-North American Migration in the Modern Era / Melanie Shell-Weiss 1747. Migration to Mexico, Migration in Mexico: A Special Case on the North American Continent / Delia GonzÁlez de Ruefels with Dirk Hoerder 1888. The Construction of Borders: Building North American Nations, Building a Continental Perimeter, 1890s–1920s / Angelika E. Sauer 2109. The United States-Mexican Border as Material and Cultural Barrier / Omar S. Valerio-JimÉnez 228Part III. Complicating Narratives10. Migration and the Seasonal Round: An Odawa Family's Story / Susan E. Gray 25311. Market Interactions in a Borderland Setting: A Case Study of the Gila River Pima of Arizona, 1846–1862 / Dan Killoren 26412. Paying Attention to Moving Americans: Migration Knowledge in the Age of Internal Migration, 1930s–1970s / James N. Gregory 27713. The Black Experience in Canada Revisited / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu 29714. Circumnavigating Controls: Transborder Migration of Asian-Origin Migrants during the Period of Exclusion / Yukari Takai 31315. Migration and Capitalism: The Rise of the U.S.-Mexican Border / John Mason Hart 333Part IV. Contemporary and Applied Perspectives16. Central American Migration and the Shaping of Refugee Policy / MarÍa Cristina Garcia 34717. Central American Transmigrants: Migratory Movement of Special Interest to Different Sectors within and outside Mexico / Rodolfo Casillas-R. 36418. Interrogating Managed Migration's Model: A Counternarrative of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program / Kerry Preibisch 37719. 1867 and All That . . .: Teaching the American Survey as Continental North American History / Angelika Sauer and Catherine O'Donnell 391About the Contributors 399Index 401