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Volume II 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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Marcelo J. Borges is Professor of History and the Boyd Lee Spahr Chair in the History of the Americas at Dickinson College. He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective (2009) and co-editor (with Linda Reeder and Sonia Cancian) of Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration (2021). Madeline Y. Hsu is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (2015) and co-editor (with Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia) of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924–1965 (2018).

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