Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930

Review of: Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930. Overland, Orm

Genre et migrations dans les études atlantiques de 1500 à nos jours

Malgré les efforts pour décrire les connexions entre l’Atlantique et le reste du monde, les chercheurs ne s’accordent pas sur la périodisation de l’intégration mondiale et la fin du statut de l’Atlantique comme une macro-région particulière. Ils reconnaissent toutefois que les flux migratoires massifs sont un élément constitutif de ce processus et certains chercheurs affirment que l’intégration mondiale récente a produit la féminisation des mouvements migratoires dans toutes les régions du monde. Dans cet article, l’auteure s’intéresse à la question du genre dans les migrations internationales, depuis les traites négrières jusqu’au début du XXe siècle. Elle montre que la féminisation des migrations commence avant le XXe siècle et que le processus s’est poursuivi au cours des années 1960.Despite recent efforts to describe the changing relationship of the Atlantic to the wider world, scholars do not agree on the periodization of global integration and the end of the Atlantic’s status as a unique macro-region. They do, however, agree that mass migratory flows are a constitutive element of global integration; some social sciences argue further that recent global integration has produced the feminization of migratory movements across all world regions. This paper traces the gender composition of long distance migrations from the early modern slave trades to the twentieth century. It finds convergence in gendered patterns of migration beginning already in the early twentieth century and argues that feminization of international migrations was complete by 1960.A pesar de los esfuerzos por describir las conexiones entre el Atlántico y el resto del mundo los investigadores no logran ponerse de acuerdo sobre la periodización de la integración mundial y el fin del estatus del Atlántico como una macro-región particular. Reconocen, no obstante, que los flujos migratorios masivos son un elemento constitutivo de este proceso y ciertos investigadores afirman que la integración mundial reciente produjo la feminización de los movimientos migratorios en todas las regiones del mundo. En este artículo, la autora se interesa por la cuestión de género en las migraciones internacionales, desde las tratas negreras hasta principios del siglo XX. Muestra que la feminización de las migraciones comienza antes del siglo XX y que el proceso continuó en el transcurso de los años sesenta

‘Capturing Anarchists Across Borders’: the transnational dimensions of Italian antimilitarist campaigns, 1911-1914

This article stems from the vibrant debate on methodological developments and new perspectives that has been inspired by a recent upsurge of interest in the transnational history of labour and radical movements. It engages with the problematic question of the integration between different scales of analysis in the study of radicalism: the ‘transnational’, ‘national’ and ‘local’ or ‘trans-local’. The article reverts the study of transnational anarchism back to a ‘national’ and ‘trans-local’ perspective: the analysis of the intersection between the networks of those who migrated from Italy and those who stayed there provides a fruitful way to uncover the dynamics within the transnational anarchist movement and the inter-playing, in both directions, between: home country - exiles’ communities - host countries. The article focuses on the crucial - but still unexplored - contributions in terms of propaganda, theoretical debate, financing, and counterculture production that the communities of Italian anarchists abroad (among them London, Paris, Berne, Marseille, Barre, and Buenos Aires) gave to the antimilitarist campaigns against the Italian colonial enterprise in Libya and for the release of Augusto Masetti - the soldier who shot at his colonel whilst addressing troops leaving for the frontline - from 1911 to 1914. The investigation of the initiatives that the anarchist exiles established and coordinated with their comrades in Italy provides a significant case study not only for the understanding of network-based transnational anarchism but also to reflect on the mechanisms of political migration and its influence in the development of social conflicts

Book Review: foreign relations: American immigration in global perspective

Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation’s complex connections to immigration. Donna Gabaccia examines America’s relationship to immigration and its debates through the prism of the nation’s changing foreign policy over the past two centuries. Susan F. Martin finds Gabaccia’s book a welcome addition to the growing literature on the historical antecedents of the most pressing immigration issues of today