Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
How Representative are Emigrant Letters? An Exploration of the German Case....Pages 29-55
The Limits of the Australian Emigrant Letter....Pages 56-74
Marriage through the Mail: North American Correspondence Marriage from Early Print to the Web....Pages 75-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Irish Emigration and the Art of Letter-Writing....Pages 97-106
“Every Person Like a Letter”: The Importance of Correspondence in Lithuanian Immigrant Life....Pages 107-123
Epistolary Communication between Migrant Workers and their Families....Pages 124-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Epistolary Masquerades: Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters....Pages 141-157
Reading and Writing across the Borders of Dictatorship: Self-Censorship and Emigrant Experience in Nazi and Stalinist Europe....Pages 158-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
“Going into Print”: Published Immigrant Letters, Webs of Personal Relations, and the Emergence of the Welsh Public Sphere....Pages 175-199
As if at a Public Meeting: Polish American Readers, Writers, and Editors of Ameryka-Echo, 1922–1969....Pages 200-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Negotiating Space, Time, and Identity: The Hutton-Pellett Letters and a British Child’s Wartime Evacuation to Canada....Pages 223-247
The Ukrainian Government-in-Exile’s Postal Network and the Construction of National Identity....Pages 248-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Immigrant Petition Letters in Early Modern Saxony....Pages 271-290
“To His Excellency the Sovereign of all Russian Subjects in Canada”: Emigrant Correspondence with Russian Consulates in Montreal, Vancouver, and Halifax, 1899–1922....Pages 291-305
Back Matter....Pages 306-315