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In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin.

Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each 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 contemporary 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 throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents/Tables and Figures
  2. pp. vii-xi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xv
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. p. xvii
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  1. Introduction: Crossing Borders and Boundaries in the Hispanic Caribbean
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. CHAPTER ONE: Rethinking Transnationalism: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Practical Problems
  2. pp. 17-33
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  1. CHAPTER TWO: In the Entrails of the Monster: A Historical Overview of Hispanic Caribbean Migration to the United States
  2. pp. 35-61
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  1. CHAPTER THREE: The Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Diasporas: A Comparative Approach
  2. pp. 63-80
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  1. CHAPTER FOUR: A Transnational Colonial Migration: Puerto Rico’s Farm Labor Program
  2. pp. 81-103
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  1. CHAPTER FIVE: The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping Identity Discourses among Middle-Class Puerto Rican Immigrants
  2. pp. 105-133
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  1. CHAPTER SIX: Revisiting the Exception: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective
  2. pp. 135-152
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  1. CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond the Rafters: Recent Trends and Projections in Cuban Migration
  2. pp. 153-167
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  1. CHAPTER EIGHT: Los Países: Transnational Migration from the Dominican Republic
  2. pp. 169-186
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  1. CHAPTER NINE: The Dominican Diaspora to Puerto Rico: A Transnational Perspective
  2. pp. 187-207
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  1. CHAPTER TEN: Transnational Crossroads: The Circulation of People and Money in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
  2. pp. 209-225
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  1. Conclusion: How Do Borders Blur?
  2. pp. 227-233
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 235-240
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 241-273
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  1. Index
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