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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.
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- 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
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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.
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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.
