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Introduction to Volume 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
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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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 18 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Boris, Eileen, Gottfried, Heidi, Greene, Julie, and Tham, Joo-Cheong, eds. Global Labor Migrations: New Directions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
FitzGerald, David Scott. Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gatrell, Peter. The Making of the Modern Refugee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Green, Nancy L. and Weil, François, eds. Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Hamlin, Rebecca. Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoerder, Dirk. Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lake, Marilyn and Reynolds, Henry. Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ngai, Mae M. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2021.Google Scholar
Torpey, John C. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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