University Press of Florida Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada (Contested Boundaries)

Product Description 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. Review "Offer[s] a great deal of insight on the complex history of Canada and the United States, their relations, and the evolution of borderlands."--Journal of World History "A sense of entanglement pervades the volume, and the reader is continually reminded of the numerous and complex ways in which migration in Canada and the U.S. are intertwined, mutually constituted, and enmeshed in global processes. . . . A superb contribution to North American migration history."--Social History About the Author Benjamin Bryce is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.AlexanderFreund is professor of history and chair in German-Canadian studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is the editor of Beyond the Nation? Immigrants’ Local Lives in Transnational Cultures and coeditor of Oral History and Photography.