Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930. .(Book Review)

From: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930. Bruno Ramirez, with the assistance of Yves Otis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. 219 pp. $47.79 hc.

In the past twenty years, Bruno Ramirez has emerged as a leading scholar of transatlantic and North American migrations. Especially noteworthy is his 1991 book, On the Move, an exploration of the relationship between migrations and regional labour markets in Southern Italy, Montreal, rural Quebec, and New England. In Crossing the 49"' Parallel, Ramirez and his collaborator, Yves Otis, once ...

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