Entangling Migration History

Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada

Benjamin Bryce, Alexander Freund

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780813055299
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

For almost two centuries North America has been a major destination for international migrants, but from the late nineteenth century onward, governments began to regulate borders, set immigration quotas, and define categories of citizenship. To develop a more dimensional approach to migration studies, the contributors to this volume focus on people born in the United States and Canada who migrated to the other country, as well as Japanese, Chinese, German, and Mexican migrants who came to the United States and Canada. These case studies explore how people and ideas transcend geopolitical boundaries. By including local, national, and transnational perspectives, the editors emphasize the value of tracking connections over large spaces and political boundaries.

Entangling Migration History ultimately contends that crucial issues in the United States and Canada, such as labor and economic growth and ideas about the racial or religious makeup of the nation, are shaped by the two countries' connections to each other and the surrounding world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Entangling Migration History
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Canada and the Atlantic World: Migration from a Hemispheric Perspective, 1500–1800
• 2. A Spatial Grammar of Migration in the Canadian-American Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• 3. Mexicans, Canadians, and the Reconfiguration of Continental Migrations, 1915–1965
• 4. Sexual Self: Morals Policing and the Expansion of the U.S. Immigration Bureau at America’s Early Twentieth-Century Borders
• 5. 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
• 6. Bridging the Pacific: Diplomacy and the Control of Japanese Transmigration via Hawai‘i, 1890–1910
• 7. Entangled Communities: German Lutherans in Ontario and North America, 1880–1930
• 8. Religious Borderlands and Transnational Networks: The North American Mennonite Underground Press in the 1960s
• Epilogue: Entanglements and the Practice of Migration History
• List of Contributors
• Index