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oapen-20.500.12657-302622021-11-09T07:55:19Z Migrants and Migration in Modern North America Hoerder, Dirk Faires, Nora History Canada Mexico United States 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 contributors examine the movements of diverse populations across North America in relation to changing cultural, political, and economic patterns. 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:32 2020-04-01T12:50:00Z 2020-04-01T12:50:00Z 2011-09-15 book 648155 OCN: 757547515 9780822394419 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30262 eng application/pdf n/a 648155.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822394419 100982 10.1215/9780822394419 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822394419 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 100982 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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 contributors examine the movements of diverse populations across North America in relation to changing cultural, political, and economic patterns.
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