Entangling Migration History
Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew J O’brien (0000-0001-8882-9865, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 440-441 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaw187 |
| OpenAlex | W3007016362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This collection of essays offers two different contributions to American immigration historiography. The editors' introduction provides a valuable primer on the recently emergent approach of entanglement theory, described by the historian Christian Goeschel as “a dynamic theory of crossovers, transfers, and exchanges.” In Entangling Migration History Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund provide a pithy intellectual genealogy of the constituent approaches of transnationalism, borderlands studies, and comparative history, each having played an important role in migration studies during the last several decades. The second accomplishment of this volume is more specific, as a number of contributors applied combinations of the those approaches to specific topics within the field of North American migration. The resulting scholarship sheds new light on largely overlooked time periods or subjects. José C. Moya's “hemispheric” study of early modern migration to Canada, for example, establishes the relatively unattractive nature of early modern movement to British North America (rather than to Spanish colonies to the south) to explain the negotiated nature of indentured servitude in eighteenth-century Canada. In a similar manner, Grace Peña Delgado combines comparative and borderlands approaches to expose the gender and racial presumptions that underpinned the antiwhite slavery movement, adopted by U.S. authorities as a tenet of immigration policies throughout much of the twentieth century
Field (mathematics · Genealogy · Historiography · Immigration · Migration studies · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Transnationalism · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |