They Should Stay There - The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression (Hardcover)

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 Saul Alanis 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 Lazaro Cardenas 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, Alanis connects the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless political tumult surrounding today's borderlands immigration issues.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latin America in Translation
Release date:	September 2017
Authors:	Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso
Translators:	Russ Davidson
Foreword by:	Mark Overmyer-Vel azquez
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-3425-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4696-3425-2
Barcode:	9781469634258

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