Fuzzy Transnationals? American Settlement, Identity, and Belonging in Canada

Autor:	Susan W. Hardwick
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Transnationality media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Immigration Identity (social science) Gender studies Metropolitan area Sense of belonging Vietnam War Sociology Settlement (litigation) Citizenship Earth-Surface Processes media_common
Zdroj:	American Review of Canadian Studies. 40:86-103
ISSN:	1943-9954 0272-2011
DOI:	10.1080/02722010903536953
Popis:	More Americans now reside in Canada than at any time since the Vietnam War. This article documents and analyzes the migration, settlement, and identity of US-born residents in three Canadian cities. My work helps fill the gap in the scholarly literature on issues related to international migration at the Canadian–US borderlands. The article's overarching goal is to illustrate that transnationality, as exhibited by US immigrants in Canada, is far more complex than prior studies of transnational identity have indicated. Findings from this study indicate that transnational linkages and identities are geographically and temporally contingent and are, as such, a reflection of both time and place. My comparison of the shifting identities of American migrants who reside in three different metropolitan areas in Canada allows a more critical analysis of the ever-shifting terrain of transnational identities as they are expressed in different contexts. Data analyzed for this study were compiled from the Canadian cen...
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