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4 - Entangling Labor Migration in the Americas, 1840–1940

from Part I - Problematizing Freedom and Mobility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Benjamin Bryce
Edited by
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

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Afro-Caribbean workersAsiansCapitalismDispossessionEuropeansExclusionIndentureIndustrializationStatistics
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 104 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Alberto, Paulina and Elena, Eduardo. “Introduction: The Shades of the Nation,” in Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina, ed. Alberto, Paulina and Elena, Eduardo, 1–22. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.Google Scholar
FitzGerald, David Scott and Cook-Martín, David. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lee, Erika. “The ‘Yellow Peril’ and Asian Exclusion in the Americas.” Pacific Historical Review 76, 4 (2007), 537–562.Google Scholar
Lesser, Jeffrey. Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McKeown, Adam. Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Moya, José C. “A Continent of Immigrants: Postcolonial Shifts in the Western Hemisphere.” Hispanic American Historical Review 86, 1 (2006), 1–28.Google Scholar
Putnam, Lara. Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, Elliott. Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Zahra, Tara. The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016.Google Scholar
Zolberg, Aristide R. A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006 .CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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