They should stay there : the story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the Great Depression
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Contributors
Davidson, Russ, translator.
Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, writer of foreword.
Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl. Que se queden allá.
Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, writer of foreword.
Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl. Que se queden allá.
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
973.0468 Ala
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Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017].
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Translation of: Que se queden allá : el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940).
General Note
"Originally published in Spanish with the title Que se queden allá : el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.
Description
"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.
Language
Translated from the Spanish.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Cárdenas, Lázaro, -- 1895-1970.
Mexican Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Mexicans -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946.
Return migration -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Mexicans -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946.
Return migration -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
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