Marcelo J Borges
Biographic Data
| ID | 146985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelo J Borges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelo J |
| FAMILY NAME | Borges |
| SIGNATURE | BORGES M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dickinson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4176-2477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Here, There, and On the Move: Space and Gender in Portuguese Migrants’ Letters
This article explores notions of space in connection with gender dynamics and marital power in letters exchanged by Portuguese migrant men and their wives during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Migrant husbands used letter writing to restore the imbalance of power over domestic affairs caused by family separation. The analysis shows how migrant experiences were rooted in local spaces in which land was central, and discusses how l…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1800-Present
Volume II 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 …
Maíra Ines Vendrame, Power in the Village: Social Networks, Honor and Justice among Immigrant Families from Italy to Brazil (London: Routledge, 2020). Pages xv + 243. 12 B/W Illustrations. £120 hardba…
Maíra Ines Vendrame, Power in the Village: Social Networks, Honor and Justice among Immigrant Families from Italy to Brazil (London: Routledge, 2020). Pages xv + 243. 12 B/W Illustrations. £120 hardback. - Volume 37 Issue 1
O impacto do crédito rural no produto agropecuário brasileiro
O trabalho avalia a relação existente entre crédito rural e produto agropecuário nos anos de 1999 a 2018. Utilizando-se da metodologia de Vetores Autorregressivos, causalidade de Granger e o método dos mínimos quadrados ordinários e generalizados, foram estimados tanto os impactos expressos via elasticidades quanto à relação ótima decorrentes desta relação. Ao longo do período analisado, observou-se significativo aumento real do crédito rural, po…
Religious Affiliations Influence Health-Related and General Decision Making: A Brazilian Nationwide Survey
Approximately 90% of the world's population is involved in some spiritual/religious practice, and this dimension has a relevant role in life. Many studies demonstrate the associations between spirituality/religiosity (S/R), and physical, mental, and social health. Systematic reviews have indicated positive associations; however, the mechanisms behind religious coping are not fully understood. The present study aimed to examine the role of religio…
Elizabeth Zanoni. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America
Argentina and the United States became the preferred destinations of Italian migrants in the Western Hemisphere in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Migrants were part of a larger system of mobility that also included the circulation of goods. The same circuits of transportation that carried labor migrants back and forth across the Atlantic also facilitated trade. The connection between migration and transatlantic trade and comme…
Reconsidering the migrant letter: From the experience of migrants to the language of migrants
Following a century of scholarly attention, the migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers. Over time, the study of migrant letters has developed in myriad directions. It has adopted methodologies ranging from the publication of complete collections and excerpts to the close analytical and computational readings of letters and…
For the good of the family: Migratory strategies and affective language in Portuguese migrant letters, 1870s–1920s
Labor migration was a common strategy for Portuguese families at the turn of the twentieth century. Correspondence provided a vehicle to keep families connected and a space to sustain and recreate their relationships and emotional bonds. This article analyzes the language of call letters, a particular type of family letter written by migrant men to call their wives and children to join them abroad. In particular, it examines the ways in which mig…
Malyn Newitt. Emigration and the Sea: An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese
After surveying Portugal’s European and global presence over eight hundred years (Portugal in European and World History [2009]), Malyn Newitt now focuses his attention on the Portuguese as people on the move. His emphasis is on the similarities and continuities among Portuguese migrants over the course of six centuries, which began with Atlantic exploration and the ensuing military and commercial expansion of the fifteenth century and continued …
Company towns: Labor, space, and power relations across time and continents
Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches M.Borges & S.Torres Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden between Company Town and Model Town M.Ryan Van Zee From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China L.Teh 'Little Storybook Town': Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola, 1913-61 J.Ball Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the …
Company Towns
Britannia Beach is not a ghost town today, but between 1957 and 1965 residents and employees of the former company-owned copper mining town, located 48 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, had good reasons to believe it would become one. The town faced two major crises in less than a decade, triggering mine shutdowns that threw the future of the town into question. How did two shutdowns within a decade and affecting the same company town prom…
Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective
Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of migration systems, examining their connections and the c…
Muitas américas: Padrões de migração transatlântica e escolha do destino no sul de portugal (séculos XIX e XX)
O artigo combina as perspectivas regional e local para analisar os factores que influenciaram a escolha do destino entre os migrantes transatlânticos originários do Algarve, no sul de Portugal. Nos finais do século XIX e início do século XX, a maioria dos migrantes algarvios ia para a Argentina. Contudo, um exame mais atento das variações intra-regionais revela um padrão mais complexo. A escolha do destino era influenciada por uma conjugação de f…
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Between 1908 and the 1950s, about 240,000 Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil. Although most started out in agriculture, over time Japanese immigrants and their descendants moved to urban areas and built a solid presence among Brazil’s middle sectors. By the 1990s, Japanese Brazilians were estimated at 1.2 million. In 1990, in the midst of economic uncertainties in Brazil and labor shortages in Japan, new opportunities emerged for Japanese Braz…
Cultures in Contact
In 2002, Dirk Hoerder published his magnum opus, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002). In this book, Hoerder describes and analyses, with an unusual breadth of scope, the origins, causes, and extent of human migration around the globe from the eleventh century onward to the present day, paying particular attention to the impact migrations have had in the receiving countries and the cultural interaction…
Network migration, marriage patterns, and adaptation in rural Portugal and among Portuguese immigrants in Argentina, 1870–1980
This article examines marriage patterns among immigrants and their children as a way to analyze the interplay of primary social networks and local conditions in the social adaptation of two communities of Portuguese immigrants in Argentina. Its main focus is on the factors involved in marriages within the same ethnic group and their evolution over time from a comparative perspective. The analysis considers aspects of marital selection in the main…
Forum: José C. Moya's Cousins and Strangers Four Comments: A Response
Key Words: immigrationmethodologytheoryhistoryethnicity
Migration Systems in Southern Portugal: Regional and Transatlantic Circuits of Labor Migration in the Algarve (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
This article applies a systems approach to the analysis of multiple circuits of labor migration that emerged in the Algarve, southern Portugal, from the late eighteenth century to the mid 1900s, and their connections. Over time Algarvian migrants participated in three main systems of migration: internal migration and migration to southern Spain and Gibraltar, transatlantic migration to the Americas and Africa – especially to Argentina – and migra…
A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the Portuguese Royal Chapel in 1552
Thomas S. Freeman, Marcelo J. Borges; ‘A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith’: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the
Migration Systems in Southern Portugal: Regional and Transatlantic Circuits of Labor Migration in the Algarve (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
This article applies a systems approach to the analysis of multiple circuits of labor migration that emerged in the Algarve, southern Portugal, from the late eighteenth century to the mid 1900s, and their connections. Over time Algarvian migrants participated in three main systems of migration: internal migration and migration to southern Spain and Gibraltar, transatlantic migration to the Americas and Africa – especially to Argentina – and migra…
Cultures in Contact
In 2002, Dirk Hoerder published his magnum opus, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002). In this book, Hoerder describes and analyses, with an unusual breadth of scope, the origins, causes, and extent of human migration around the globe from the eleventh century onward to the present day, paying particular attention to the impact migrations have had in the receiving countries and the cultural interaction…
Reconsidering the migrant letter: From the experience of migrants to the language of migrants
Following a century of scholarly attention, the migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers. Over time, the study of migrant letters has developed in myriad directions. It has adopted methodologies ranging from the publication of complete collections and excerpts to the close analytical and computational readings of letters and…
O impacto do crédito rural no produto agropecuário brasileiro
O trabalho avalia a relação existente entre crédito rural e produto agropecuário nos anos de 1999 a 2018. Utilizando-se da metodologia de Vetores Autorregressivos, causalidade de Granger e o método dos mínimos quadrados ordinários e generalizados, foram estimados tanto os impactos expressos via elasticidades quanto à relação ótima decorrentes desta relação. Ao longo do período analisado, observou-se significativo aumento real do crédito rural, po…
For the good of the family: Migratory strategies and affective language in Portuguese migrant letters, 1870s–1920s
Labor migration was a common strategy for Portuguese families at the turn of the twentieth century. Correspondence provided a vehicle to keep families connected and a space to sustain and recreate their relationships and emotional bonds. This article analyzes the language of call letters, a particular type of family letter written by migrant men to call their wives and children to join them abroad. In particular, it examines the ways in which mig…
A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the Portuguese Royal Chapel in 1552
Thomas S. Freeman, Marcelo J. Borges; ‘A grave and heinous incident against our holy Catholic Faith’: Two Accounts of William Gardiner's Desecration of the
Migration Systems in Southern Portugal: Regional and Transatlantic Circuits of Labor Migration in the Algarve (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
This article applies a systems approach to the analysis of multiple circuits of labor migration that emerged in the Algarve, southern Portugal, from the late eighteenth century to the mid 1900s, and their connections. Over time Algarvian migrants participated in three main systems of migration: internal migration and migration to southern Spain and Gibraltar, transatlantic migration to the Americas and Africa – especially to Argentina – and migra…
Forum: José C. Moya's Cousins and Strangers Four Comments: A Response
Key Words: immigrationmethodologytheoryhistoryethnicity
Network migration, marriage patterns, and adaptation in rural Portugal and among Portuguese immigrants in Argentina, 1870–1980
This article examines marriage patterns among immigrants and their children as a way to analyze the interplay of primary social networks and local conditions in the social adaptation of two communities of Portuguese immigrants in Argentina. Its main focus is on the factors involved in marriages within the same ethnic group and their evolution over time from a comparative perspective. The analysis considers aspects of marital selection in the main…
Cultures in Contact
In 2002, Dirk Hoerder published his magnum opus, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002). In this book, Hoerder describes and analyses, with an unusual breadth of scope, the origins, causes, and extent of human migration around the globe from the eleventh century onward to the present day, paying particular attention to the impact migrations have had in the receiving countries and the cultural interaction…
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Between 1908 and the 1950s, about 240,000 Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil. Although most started out in agriculture, over time Japanese immigrants and their descendants moved to urban areas and built a solid presence among Brazil’s middle sectors. By the 1990s, Japanese Brazilians were estimated at 1.2 million. In 1990, in the midst of economic uncertainties in Brazil and labor shortages in Japan, new opportunities emerged for Japanese Braz…
Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective
Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of migration systems, examining their connections and the c…
Muitas américas: Padrões de migração transatlântica e escolha do destino no sul de portugal (séculos XIX e XX)
O artigo combina as perspectivas regional e local para analisar os factores que influenciaram a escolha do destino entre os migrantes transatlânticos originários do Algarve, no sul de Portugal. Nos finais do século XIX e início do século XX, a maioria dos migrantes algarvios ia para a Argentina. Contudo, um exame mais atento das variações intra-regionais revela um padrão mais complexo. A escolha do destino era influenciada por uma conjugação de f…
Company towns: Labor, space, and power relations across time and continents
Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches M.Borges & S.Torres Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden between Company Town and Model Town M.Ryan Van Zee From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China L.Teh 'Little Storybook Town': Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola, 1913-61 J.Ball Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the …
Company Towns
Britannia Beach is not a ghost town today, but between 1957 and 1965 residents and employees of the former company-owned copper mining town, located 48 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, had good reasons to believe it would become one. The town faced two major crises in less than a decade, triggering mine shutdowns that threw the future of the town into question. How did two shutdowns within a decade and affecting the same company town prom…
Reconsidering the migrant letter: From the experience of migrants to the language of migrants
Following a century of scholarly attention, the migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers. Over time, the study of migrant letters has developed in myriad directions. It has adopted methodologies ranging from the publication of complete collections and excerpts to the close analytical and computational readings of letters and…
For the good of the family: Migratory strategies and affective language in Portuguese migrant letters, 1870s–1920s
Labor migration was a common strategy for Portuguese families at the turn of the twentieth century. Correspondence provided a vehicle to keep families connected and a space to sustain and recreate their relationships and emotional bonds. This article analyzes the language of call letters, a particular type of family letter written by migrant men to call their wives and children to join them abroad. In particular, it examines the ways in which mig…
Malyn Newitt. Emigration and the Sea: An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese
After surveying Portugal’s European and global presence over eight hundred years (Portugal in European and World History [2009]), Malyn Newitt now focuses his attention on the Portuguese as people on the move. His emphasis is on the similarities and continuities among Portuguese migrants over the course of six centuries, which began with Atlantic exploration and the ensuing military and commercial expansion of the fifteenth century and continued …
Elizabeth Zanoni. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America
Argentina and the United States became the preferred destinations of Italian migrants in the Western Hemisphere in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Migrants were part of a larger system of mobility that also included the circulation of goods. The same circuits of transportation that carried labor migrants back and forth across the Atlantic also facilitated trade. The connection between migration and transatlantic trade and comme…
Religious Affiliations Influence Health-Related and General Decision Making: A Brazilian Nationwide Survey
Approximately 90% of the world's population is involved in some spiritual/religious practice, and this dimension has a relevant role in life. Many studies demonstrate the associations between spirituality/religiosity (S/R), and physical, mental, and social health. Systematic reviews have indicated positive associations; however, the mechanisms behind religious coping are not fully understood. The present study aimed to examine the role of religio…
Maíra Ines Vendrame, Power in the Village: Social Networks, Honor and Justice among Immigrant Families from Italy to Brazil (London: Routledge, 2020). Pages xv + 243. 12 B/W Illustrations. £120 hardba…
Maíra Ines Vendrame, Power in the Village: Social Networks, Honor and Justice among Immigrant Families from Italy to Brazil (London: Routledge, 2020). Pages xv + 243. 12 B/W Illustrations. £120 hardback. - Volume 37 Issue 1
O impacto do crédito rural no produto agropecuário brasileiro
O trabalho avalia a relação existente entre crédito rural e produto agropecuário nos anos de 1999 a 2018. Utilizando-se da metodologia de Vetores Autorregressivos, causalidade de Granger e o método dos mínimos quadrados ordinários e generalizados, foram estimados tanto os impactos expressos via elasticidades quanto à relação ótima decorrentes desta relação. Ao longo do período analisado, observou-se significativo aumento real do crédito rural, po…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1800-Present
Volume II 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 …
Here, There, and On the Move: Space and Gender in Portuguese Migrants’ Letters
This article explores notions of space in connection with gender dynamics and marital power in letters exchanged by Portuguese migrant men and their wives during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Migrant husbands used letter writing to restore the imbalance of power over domestic affairs caused by family separation. The analysis shows how migrant experiences were rooted in local spaces in which land was central, and discusses how l…
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