Between Here and There - Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration, 1900-1942

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Morales, Daniel (Assistant Professor of History Morales
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9780197612606
• ISBN: 978-0-19-761260-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples