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Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States
| In this paper I will argue that the North American macro-region needs to be studied as a whole rather than by bordered states. I will discuss the artificiality of political borders and then turn to (partially) integrated scholarship of the 1930s. To illustrate the cross-border exchanges in this period I will use migrant-life writings. I will then discuss migrations and approaches to it in the present. Throughout the paper I will integrate t he Caribbean regions which has often been left out of “continental” approaches. In conclusion I will point to issues involved in the U.S. debate about “illegal” migrants.
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