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Blurred Borders : Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States

Duany, Jorge [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-8078-6937-6 ; 0-8078-6937-6 ; 978-1-4696-0279-0 ; 1-4696-0279-2 ; 978-0-8078-3497-8

MS 1560 LB 56640

 

USA  Karibik  Migration  Transnationale Politik  Kulturelle Identität  Transnationalisierung  Geschichte 1945-2011 

Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, Duany proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendents lead what Duany calls "bifocal" lives, br.