| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Marc S. Rodriguez, editor. Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community. (Studies in Comparative History.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press. 2004. Pp. xxiii, 418. $70.00.
While serving as executive secretary of the Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, Marc S. Rodriguez oversaw a conference aimed at regenerating conversations about migratory history. The result of that experience is this compilation of twelve essays, each by a different author, including the editor. As indicated by its title, this collection is an ambitious attempt to reconfigure the ways in which North American historians approach migration history. Publishing a work that will serve as the starting point of a new discussion designed to "reposition" our understandings of an entire field of study is no mean feat. Rodriguez argues that past scholarship has already established our understandings of movement and return migration within the narrow contexts of specific immigrant groups and communities. It is now time, therefore, to expand our visions and develop a broader understanding of North American migration within a continental framework that considers migration and migrants in a wider context and more comparative light.	1
When organizing a collection of essays by several authors, one faces the daunting task of maintaining thematic cohesion. This volume manages to sustain an unusual measure of consistency because each piece is built around three primary topics: movement, community, and nation building. But these stories also go beyond their individual foci and speak to each other in terms of other relevant issues, such as identity and citizenship. Hence, the reader will see how a discussion of braceros in the post-World War II period, for example, is relevant to an understanding of the importance of hobo labor, African American military service, and even Canadian immigration and return migration.	. . .

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