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10%OFFDirk Hoerder - Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics - 9780822350514 - V9780822350514
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Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics

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Description for Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics Paperback. This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America-within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States-during the past two centuries. Editor(s): Hoerder, Dirk; Faires, Nora. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 photo, 6 tables, 20 maps, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1KJ; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JFFN; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations from Central America as well. In the introduction, Dirk Hoerder provides a sweeping historical overview of North American societies in the Atlantic world. He also develops and advocates what he and Nora Faires call “transcultural societal studies,” an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies that combines migration research across disciplines and at the local, regional, national, and transnational levels. The ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822350514
SKU
V9780822350514
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About Dirk Hoerder
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
“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 “For such ... Read more

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