Due to the rise of critical social theory and reflexivity and position- ality in human geography during the past three decades, the time has come for the autobiographical method to move front and center in the discipline. [...] The use of the autobiographical method to document and ana- lyze the individual and collective experiences of migrants not only helps expand our understanding of the processes shaping the world we live in, it also opens the door to new interpretations of people, place, and mobility at the borderland. [...] This overview of the spatial pat- terns and related processes of Canadian immigrants in the United States and Americans in Canada over the years provides important background for understanding the decision making and post-migration adjustment experiences of the academic migrants featured in the book. [...] CANADIANS IN THE UNITED STATES Beginning with the forced out-migration of thousands of French-speaking Acadians from their homeland in today’s Nova Scotia to the American col- onies in the mid-eighteenth century and the earliest northward counter- flow of Loyalists emigrating to Canada from the New England colonies in opposition to the Revolutionary War, there has been a steady flow of migrants in [...] As shown on the two maps in Figure 1, in addition to the Sunbelt states, the largest numbers of Canadians in the US reside in states located in close proximity to the Canadian border such as New York, Michigan, and Washington.
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- 2014.
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- 910.92/2
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Table of Contents
- Couverture 1
- Table of contents 9
- Introduction 11
- Chapter 1 – Canadian and American Cross-Border Migration, Settlement, and Belonging 17
- Autobiography and geography 18
- Canadian and american migration flows at the borderland 21
- Canadians in the united states 21
- Americans in canada 24
- Cross-border academic flowsin north america 26
- References cited 31
- PART I – CANADIAN GEOGRAPHERS IN THE UNITED STATES 35
- Chapter 2 – Where is Home? An Auto-ethnography of Academic Migration 37
- References cited 49
- Chapter 3 – Crossing the Line. Reflections on a Transnational Lifeworld 51
- Peering across the line 51
- Identities and places: where do i belong? 54
- Subjects and states:will they let me belong? 58
- Conclusion : blurred but present, always 61
- References cited 62
- Chapter 4 – A Path across the Border 63
- Push-Pull factors 65
- Role of the departmentand university 67
- Physical/environmental characteristics 71
- Assessing career and personal impacts 73
- Attachment to place/sense of belonging 75
- Other challenges and opportunities 77
- Chapter 5 – Chasing a Life that Borders on Two Nations 81
- Role of the department’s or university’s reputation in choice to move abroad 82
- Push-Pull factors influencing my decision to emigrate 83
- Attachment to place, sense of belonging, feelings of post-migration “otherness” after relocation 84
- Attraction of the physical/environmental characteristics of my destination in the us 85
- Other opportunities and challenges of living and teaching abroad 86
- What if . . . ? 88
- Concluding thoughts 90
- PART II – AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS IN CANADA 91
- Chapter 6 – From New York to Montréal. Or How I Became a Canadian and a Québécois 93
- Push factors: my american journey 94
- Pull factors : of coincidences and choices 97
- On to Québec city 102
- Conclusion: a good québécois and model canadian 108
- Chapter 7 – Borders, States, Nations. Living Political Geography 111
- Borders and states 112
- Nations : reflections on identity and teaching 114
- National and academic economies : the world is not flat 118
- National differences that matter 120
- References cited 124
- Chapter 8 – Between Telling the Truth and Biting the Hand that Feeds. My Experience Immigrating to Canada 127
- Push/Pull factors 128
- Department or university reputation and migration decision 129
- Attraction of physical/environmental characteristics 129
- Career/personal impacts of migration decision 130
- Attachment to place/sense of belonging 131
- Challenges and opportunities 132
- Conclusion 139
- References cited 139
- Chapter 9 – Reflecting on My ’Borderlands’ 141
- Moving to montréal 142
- Working “in french” (or, the hegemony of the anglophone geography) 144
- Working “on Mexico”(one north America’s subaltern spaces) 146
- Conclusion: the possibilityof critical spaces of translation 149
- References cited 150
- About the Contributors 153
- Quatrième de couverture 158
