Marcelo Borges received his Ph. D. from Rutgers University (1997) and undergraduate and post-graduate degrees from the National University of La Plata, Argentina (1988).  He teaches Latin American, Iberian, and comparative history. His current research deals with transatlantic migration from Portugal to Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly to Argentina; and with migration, identity and community formation in the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentina.

Together with students and colleagues from Dickinson College and the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia, he is working on the Patagonia Mosaic -- a collaborative research and teaching project that focuses on transnational migration, labor, and identity in the former oil company towns of central Patagonia. Click here to visit the project's website.

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Fall 2007

Selected Publications

“Migrations in Latin America: A Crosscultural Perspective,” in “Review Symposium: Cultures in Contact,” in International Review of  Social History,  49 (2004), 483–488.
 
“Many Americas: Patterns of Transatlantic Migration and Choice of Destination in Southern Portugal (19th–20th Centuries)” in Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, 40, 150 (June 2003), pp. 351–375.

“Network Migration, Marriage Patterns, and Adaptation in Rural Portugal and Among Portuguese Immigrants in Argentina, 1870–1980,” in The History of the Family: An International Quarterly, 8, 3 (2003), pp. 445–479.

“Networks and Structures”, in “José Moya’s Cousins and Strangers: A Forum,” Historical Methods, 34, 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 40–43.

“Migration Systems in Southern Portugal: Regional and Transatlantic Circuits of Labor Migration in the Algarve (18th–20th Centuries),” in International Review of Social History, 45, 2 (August 2000), pp. 171–208.

“Portugueses en Buenos Aires en el siglo XIX: orígenes y evolución de una comunidad multisecular” [Portuguese in Buenos Aires during the 19th century: Origins and Evolution of a Multi-secular Community], in Emigração/Imigração em Portugal: Actas do Colóquio Internacional sobre Emigração e Imigração em Portugal (séc. XIX–XX), edited by Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Maria I. Benis Baganha, Maria José Maranhão, and Miriam Halpern Pereira (Lisbon: Editorial Fragmentos, 1993), pp. 308–322.

“Características residenciales de los inmigrantes portugueses en Buenos Aires en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX” [Residential Patterns Among Portuguese Immigrants in Buenos Aires During the Second Half of the 19th Century], in Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (Buenos Aires),  6, 18 (August 1991), pp. 223–247.

“Historia y memoria en una comunidad rural de inmigrantes portugueses. Las fuentes orales en los estudios migratorios” [History and Memory in a Portuguese Immigrant Rural Community: Oral sources in Migration Studies], in Estudios de Historia Rural (Serie Estudios/ Investigaciones No. 7), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (1991), pp. 129–156.
 

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