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27 - Migrant Illegalities since 1800

from Part VIII - Migration Control, Discipline, and Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Marlou Schrover
Edited by
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

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citizenshipnationalitynaturalizationexpatriationdual citizenshippassportsmobility rightsnational identityinternational lawrace
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 560 - 579
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Andersson, Ruben. Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Brinkmann, Tobias. Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880–1914. New York: Berghahn, 2013.Google Scholar
De Genova, Nicholas P. “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life.” Annual Review of Anthropology 31 (2002), 419–447.Google Scholar
Fahrmeir, Andreas, Faron, Olivier, and Weil, Patrick, eds. Migration Control in the North Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period. New York: Berghahn, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feys, Torsten. The Battle for The Migrants: The Introduction of Steamshipping on the North Atlantic and Its Impact on The European Exodus. St. John’s: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2013.Google Scholar
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena, Loescher, Gil, Long, Katy, and Sigona, Nando, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jordan, Bill and Düvell, Franck. Irregular Migration: The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility. Cheltenham: Elgar, 2003.Google Scholar
Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, Elliott, Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Zolberg, Aristide R. A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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