1st Edition

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration

488 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

488 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

488 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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 (18701930)

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 (19302000)

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