Blurred Borders

Blurred Borders
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780807869376
ISBN-13 : 0807869376
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Book Synopsis Blurred Borders by : Jorge Duany

Download or read book Blurred Borders written by Jorge Duany and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin. 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 descendants lead what Duany calls "bifocal" lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.


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