Beyond la Frontera : The History of Mexico-U. S. Migration
ISBN: 9780195382228 | 0195382226
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/1/2011
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Mexican migration to the United States has comprised the world's largest sustained movement of migratory workers in the twentieth century. Given the current and persistent contentiousness surrounding the issues of legal and undocumented migration in Mexican and U.S. politics, it is time for abroad, binational historical perspective that assesses the development and impact of migratory trends and practices as they developed in Mexico and the United States through the twentieth century. An increased and well-established migratory flow in the firs... MORE
| Foreword | |
| Weaponized Fences and Novel Borderings: The Beginning of a New History? | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xv |
| List of Figures and Tables | p. xvii |
| Introduction | |
| Histories and Historiographies of Greater Mexico | p. xix |
| Chronological Histories | |
| "Los de casa se van, los de fuera no vieneri" The First Mexican Immigrants, 1848-1900 | p. 3 |
| Mexican Labo... MORE | p. 28 |
| The Repatriation of Mexicans from the United States and Mexican Nationalism, 1929-1940 | p. 51 |
| The Bracero Program, 1942-1964 | p. 79 |
| Migration and the Border, 1965-1985 | p. 103 |
| Comparative Themes | |
| Race and the New Southern Migration, 1986 to the Present | p. 125 |
| Indigenous Mexican Migrants | p. 161 |
| Mexican Migration and the Law | p. 179 |
| Gender, Sexuality, and Mexican Migration | p. 204 |
| Cultural Representation and Mexican Immigration | p. 227 |
| Epilogue The Past and Future of Mexico-U.S. Migration | p. 251 |
| Appendix Chronology of Mexican Migration | p. 267 |
| Contributors | p. 287 |
| Bibliography | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 337 |
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Mark Overmyer-Velzquez is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico (2006), which won the 2007 Best Book Prize awarded by the New England Council on Latin American Studies.
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