Rodriguez, Marc S.; Gabbaccia, Donna R.; Grossman, James R.

Repositioning North American Migration History : New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Reconsidering Modern Continental Migration, Community, and Citizenship ix Marc S. Rodriguez Crossing Borders, Countering Exceptionalism 1(15) Walter Nugent Borderland Studies and Migration: The Canada/United States Case 16(11) Bruno Ramirez Constructing North America: Railroad Building and the Rise of Continental Migrations, 1850--1914 27(27) Donna R. Gabaccia The Southern Diaspora: Twentieth-Century America's Great Migration/s 54(44) James N. Gregory ``Like the Flock of Swallows That Come in the Springtime'': The Uneasy Place of Hobo Workers in Midwestern Economy and Culture 98(43) Frank Tobias Higbie Borderland Discontents: Mexican Migration in Regional Contexts, 1880--1930 141(65) Josef Barton Braceros, ``Wetbacks,'' and the National Boundaries of Class 206(59) Mae M. Ngai War! What Is It Good For?: Conscription and Migration in Black America 265(19) Kimberley L. Phillips Thinking Space, Thinking Community: Lessons from Early American ``Immigration History'' 284(18) Kunal M. Parker The South and the City: Black Southern Migrants, Storefront Churches, and the Rise of a Religious Diaspora 302(26) Wallace Best Migrants and Citizens: Mexican American Migrant Workers and the War on Poverty in an American City 328(24) Marc S. Rodriguez ``I Decided I'd Marry the First Man Who Asked'': Gendering Black Migration from Cotton Country to the Desert Southwest 352(36) Annelise Orleck Conclusion: From U.S. Immigration History to a History of Continental Journeys 388(14) Donna R. Gabaccia James R. Grossman Notes on Contributors 402(4) Index 406