Between Here and There

Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration, 1900-1942

Daniel Morales (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761260-6 (ISBN)

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Between Here and There illustrates how large-scale migration became entrenched in the socioeconomic fabric of the United States and Mexico, tracing how migration became a major political issue in the early twentieth century in both countries and became the largest emigration between two states in modern history.

The migration between Mexico and the United States is the largest emigration of people between two states in modern history. Today, thirty-six million Mexican Americans call the United States home. The Bracero period and recent Mexican migration have been well explored, but little is known about how mass migration arose in the first half of the twentieth century.

Between Here and There is the first book to investigate the creation of modern US-Mexico migration patterns narrated from multiple sites on the borders and interior states. It illustrates how large-scale migration became entrenched in the socioeconomic fabric of both nations, drawing on the largest cohort study of Mexican migration during these decades. Through an analysis of the interplay between the US and Mexican governments, civic organizations, and migrants on both sides of the border, it offers a revisionist and comprehensive view of Mexican migration as a socio-economic system that reached from the Texas borderlands to California, as well as to Midwestern farming and industrial areas. Reacting to the political and economic events of these decades, migrant workers become increasingly assertive, even as migration becomes a major political issue in both societies. Those in Mexico claimed an expansive form of citizenship and land, while those in the United States joined efforts to claim New Deal rights, creating a base for later organizing. These dynamics shaped the establishment of the Bracero program that brought in more than four million workers and migration patterns that continue through the present day.

Daniel Morales is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and Director of the Migration Studies Lab, where he leads the Latino Virginia Project. A native of southern California, the son of migrant workers, and the grandson of repatriates and braceros, he writes and speaks on immigration-related issues inside and outside of academia, including for NPR and PBS.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Roots of Mexican Migration
Chapter 1: Revolution and Migration: The Rise of "Migration Fever" in San Luis Potosí and Guanajuato, 1890-1920
Chapter 2: Navigating the Borderlands: Migrants in the Mining and Cotton Regions of Arizona and Texas, 1900-1925
Chapter 3: Into the North: Railroads, Sugar Beets, and Steel in the Spread of Mexican Migration to the Midwest, 1910-1930
Chapter 4: Entre Familia y Patria: The Paths of Migration in Central Mexico, 1920-1930
Chapter 5: Tejas, Afuera de México: Newspapers, the Mexican Government, Mutualistas, and Migrants in San Antonio, 1915-1940
Chapter 6: Caught in the Middle: Migrant Labor in Southern California, 1920-1940
Chapter 7 El Retorno: Remaking Lives in Mexico, 1930-1942
Epilogue: The Persistent Political Economy of Migrant Labor
Appendix: Counting the Uncounted: The Mexican Migrant Study, 1910-1940
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	49 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-19-761260-1 / 0197612601
ISBN-13	978-0-19-761260-6 / 9780197612606
Zustand	Neuware