Marcelo J. Borges, Dickinson College

Marcelo J. Borges

Associate Professor of History
Chair, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies

Dickinson College
P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013-2896

Phone: (717) 245-1186
Fax: (717) 245-1479
E-mail: borges@dickinson.edu

Courses	Publications

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). His teaching focuses on Latin America, international migrations, and comparative history. His research interests include transatlantic migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; immigration in Argentina; and memory and oral narratives of migration.

He is the author of a recent book on Portuguese migration to Argentina and numerous articles on migration history. His current research focuses on migrants' correspondence; transnational families; company towns in comparison; and migration, identity and community formation in Patagonia.

Together with students and colleagues from Dickinson College and the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia, he developed 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.

HIS 130: Latin America History I (to 1825)
HIS 131: Latin America History II (since 1825)
HIS 283: Latin American-US Relations
HIS 204: Introduction to Historical Methodology
HIS 213: Modern Spain and Portugal
HIS 215: Argentina, Brazil, Chile since 1800
HIS 315: Film and History in Latin America
HIS 315: Immigration to the Americas
HIS 305: Patagonia Research Practicum
HIS 315: Patagonia Mosaic 2001, 2003, 2005
HIS 315: Adams County-Mexico Mosaic 2003
HIS 404: Senior Seminar on International Migrations
HIS 404: Senior Seminar on Comparative History
First Year Seminar: South of the Border: Images of Latin America in
U.S. Popular Culture
Latin American Studies 490: Latin American Interdisciplinary Research
Research Practicum (Dickinson in Málaga Program)
Iberian Social History (Dickinson in Málaga Program )
Intercultural Seminar (Dickinson in Málaga Program )

Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. (See book details)

Portuguese Studies Review 14, 2 (2006; released 2009). Special Issue: “Portuguese Migrations in Comparison: Historical Patterns and Transnational Communities.”
(See index)

An Argentine Mosaic: Destino Patagonia, 2009. Co-produced with Susan Rose. Bilingual documentary about the Argentine migration experience, focusing on the oral histories of migrants to the Patagonian town of Comodoro Rivadavia and its oil company towns.
(See a 10-minute clip)

“Migrações portuguesas na Argentina: redes transatlânticas e experiências locais,” in Do Fado ao Tango: Os Portugueses na Região Platina, edited by Helena Carreiras and Andrés Malamud. Lisbon: Editora Mundos Socias, 2010, 15–41. [Portuguese translation of article published in Portuguese Studies Review, 2009.]

“Muitas Américas: padrões de migração transatlântica e escolha do destino no sul de Portugal (séculos XIX e XX),” Ler História 59 (2009): 83–104 [Portuguese translation of article published in Studi Migrazione, 2003.]

“Portugiesische Arbeitswanderer in West-, Mittel- und Nordeuropa seit den 1950er Jahren (Beispiele Frankreich und Deutschland),” [Portuguese ‘Guestworkers’ in Northern, Central, and Western Europe since the 1950s], in Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa: vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, eds. Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Otlmer. Paderborn: Schöningh; Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007, 891–6. (Forthcoming in English.)

“Portuguese Migrations in Argentina: Transatlantic Networks and Local Experiences,” Portuguese Studies Review 14, 2 (2006; released 2009): 87–123.

“Migrations in Latin America: A Crosscultural Perspective,” in “Review Symposium: Cultures in Contact,” International Review of Social History, 49 (2004): 483–88.

“Many Americas: Patterns of Transatlantic Migration and Choice of Destination in Southern Portugal (19th–20th Centuries)” Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies 40, 150 (June 2003): 351–75.

“Network Migration, Marriage Patterns, and Adaptation in Rural Portugal and Among Portuguese Immigrants in Argentina, 1870–1980,” The History of the Family: An International Quarterly 8, 3 (2003): 445–79.

“Networks and Structures”, Historical Methods 34, 1 (Winter 2001): 40–3.

“Migration Systems in Southern Portugal: Regional and Transatlantic Circuits of Labor Migration in the Algarve (18th–20th Centuries),” International Review of Social History 45, 2 (Aug. 2000): 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, 308–22.

“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], Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 6, 18 (Aug. 1991): 223–47.

“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], Estudios de Historia Rural (Serie Estudios/ Investigaciones No. 7), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (1991): 129–56.

“Los portugueses en Buenos Aires a mediados del siglo XIX: Una aproximación socio-demográfica,”[Portuguese Immigrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires: A Sociodemographic Approach], Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 4, 12 (Aug. 1989): 353–82.