Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States

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On this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the USA from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico handle a couple of ties to their countries of origin.

Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that every sending country’s relationship to the USA shapes the transnational experience for every 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 latest 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 all the way through their lives. At the same time as nations attempt to attract their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and place of dwelling, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.

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