1st Edition
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements.
The volume introduces the migratory trajectories of Latin American populations as a complex web of transnational movements linking origin, transit, and receiving countries. It showcases the historical mobility dynamics of different national groups including Arab, Asian, African, European, and indigenous migration and their divergent international trajectories within existing migration systems in the Western Hemisphere, including South America, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica. The contributors explore some of the main causes for migration, including wars, economic dislocation, social immobility, environmental degradation, repression, and violence. Multiple case studies address critical contemporary topics such as the Venezuelan exodus, Central American migrant caravans, environmental migration, indigenous and gender migration, migrant religiosity, transit and return migration, urban labor markets, internal displacement, the nexus between organized crime and forced migration, the role of social media and new communication technologies, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on movement. These essays provide a comprehensive map of the historical evolution of migration in Latin America and contribute to define future challenges in migration studies in the region.
This book will be of interest to scholars of Latin American and Migration Studies in the disciplines of history, sociology, political science, anthropology, and geography.
1. Introduction
Andreas E. Feldmann, Xóchitl Bada, Jorge Durand, and Stephanie Schütze
2. Migration Studies in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Account
Douglas S. Massey
Section I
Great Migration Systems in the Americas
3. The Mesoamerican Migration System
Jorge Durand
4. Main Historical Trends in Caribbean Migration
Jorge Duany
5. International Migration in South America.
Victoria Prieto-Rosas and Julieta Bengochea
Section II
Migration Dynamics (1870–1930)
6. Migration and Nation in Latin America
Michael Goebel
7. Pacific Rims and Atlantic Worlds
Jeffrey Lesser
8. Religion and Migration in Latin America
Julia G. Young
9. Haitian Migration to the Dominican Republic
Marina Ariza
10. Arab Americana: Redrawing "Hemispheric Partitions"
John Tofik Karam
11. Jewish Migration to Latin America
Mariusz Kałczewiak
Section III
20th Century Migration Movements (1930–2000)
12. Gender Migration in Latin America
Marcela Cerrutti
13. Forced Migration and Exile: Analytical and Historical Perspectives
Luis Roniger
14. Indigenous Migration in Latin America
Laura Velasco-Ortiz
15. Migratory Processes in Argentina
Alejandro Grimson and Menara Guizardi
16. Venezuela: The Golden Magnet
William Mejía
17. Central American Migration to the United States: Historical Roots and Current Conditions
Leisy J. Abrego and Cecilia Menjívar
18. Mexican Migration to the United States and the Rise of the Deportation Machine
Adam Goodman
19. Latin American Migration to Canada: Understanding Socially Differentiated Inclusions
Tanya Basok, Luin Goldring, Patricia Landolt, Fernando Mata, and Paloma E. Villegas
Section IV
Migration Patterns in the 21st Century
20. Demographic Environment and Migration Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Silvia E. Giorguli-Saucedo, Victor M. García-Guerrero, and Claudia Masferrer
21. Internal Displacement in Latin America
Andreas E. Feldmann
22. The Nexus of Forced Migration and Organized Violence
Ximena Alba, Ludger Pries, and Stephanie Schütze
23. Urban Labor Markets and Migration in Latin American Cities
Cristóbal Mendoza
24. Root Causes of the Contemporary Venezuelan Exodus
Lourdes Gouveia
25. More than a Northward Migratory Corridor: Changes in Transit Migration and Migration Policy in Mexico
Martha Luz Rojas-Wiesner
26. Return Migration to Mexico
Mónica L. Jacobo-Suárez and Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos
Section IV
Future Dynamics in Population Movements
27. Environmental Change, Its Social Impacts, and Migration Responses Within and Out of Latin America: A Review and Theoretical Inquiry
Fernando Riosmena
28. New Communication Technologies and Peoples’ Movement
Michele F. Ferris-Dobles
29. Migration Research in Violent Areas
Rebecca V. Bell-Martin and Jerome F. Marston Jr.
30. Human Mobility and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America
Luisa Feline Freier and Soledad Castillo-Jara
31. Caravans Adrift: Central American Migrants Stranded Along the Northern Border of Mexico
Dolores París-Pombo and Amarela Varela-Huerta
32. Between Closure and Openness: Migration Governance and the Venezuelan Exodus
Luciana Gandini
Biography
Andreas E. Feldmann is Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and Department of Political Science, and Principal Investigator of the Global Immigration Cluster Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Xóchitl Bada is Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Jorge Durand is Research Professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Stephanie Schütze is Professor in the Latin America Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Listen to Andreas E. Feldmann and Xóchitl Bada discuss the book on New Books in Economic and Business History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLsoKrz7eE
