They should stay there : the story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the Great Depression / Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso ; translated by Russ Davidson ; foreword by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez.
2017
E184.M5 A65313 2017eb
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Title
They should stay there : the story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the Great Depression / Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso ; translated by Russ Davidson ; foreword by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez.
Uniform Title
Que se queden allá. English
ISBN
9781469634272 (electronic book)
1469634279 (electronic book)
9781469634289 (electronic book)
1469634287 (electronic book)
9781469634258
1469634252
9781469634265
1469634260
1469634279 (electronic book)
9781469634289 (electronic book)
1469634287 (electronic book)
9781469634258
1469634252
9781469634265
1469634260
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 246 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
E184.M5 A65313 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973/.046872
Summary
"Here, for the first time in English--and from the Mexican perspective--is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth century's most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Sauʻl Alanís Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to be in the twenty-first. When the Great Depression took hold, the United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican government was fearful of the resulting economic implications, President Lázaro Cárdenas fostered the repatriation effort for mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of Mexican domestic and foreign policy, Alanís connects the aftermath of the Mexican revolution to the relentless political tumult surrounding today's borderlands immigration issues."--Page 4 of cover.
Note
Translation of: Que se queden allá : el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Table of Contents
Migratory movements between Mexico and the United States, 1880-1934
The Mexican community in the United States, 1933-1939
The Mexican government and repatriation: November 1934-June 1936
From the creation of the Demography and Repatriation Section to the elaboration of a repatriation project, July 1936-October 1938
The repatriation project, 1938-1939
Spanish refugees, the repatriated, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley
The 18 March agricultural colony in Tamaulipas, 1939-1940
The end of the project, 1939-1940.
The Mexican community in the United States, 1933-1939
The Mexican government and repatriation: November 1934-June 1936
From the creation of the Demography and Repatriation Section to the elaboration of a repatriation project, July 1936-October 1938
The repatriation project, 1938-1939
Spanish refugees, the repatriated, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley
The 18 March agricultural colony in Tamaulipas, 1939-1940
The end of the project, 1939-1940.