Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Crossing Borders and Boundaries in the Hispanic Caribbean -- CHAPTER ONE: Rethinking Transnationalism: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Practical Problems -- CHAPTER TWO: In the Entrails of the Monster: A Historical Overview of Hispanic Caribbean Migration to the United States -- CHAPTER THREE: The Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Diasporas: A Comparative Approach -- CHAPTER FOUR: A Transnational Colonial Migration: Puerto Rico's Farm Labor Program -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping Identity Discourses among Middle-Class Puerto Rican Immigrants -- CHAPTER SIX: Revisiting the Exception: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond the Rafters: Recent Trends and Projections in Cuban Migration -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Los Países Transnational Migration from the Dominican Republic -- CHAPTER NINE: The Dominican Diaspora to Puerto Rico: A Transnational Perspective -- CHAPTER TEN: Transnational Crossroads: The Circulation of People and Money in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic -- Conclusion: How Do Borders Blur? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.