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Author Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl, author.

Title They should stay there : the story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the Great Depression / Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso ; translated by Russ Davidson ; foreword by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 246 pages)
Series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Contents Migratory movements between Mexico and the United States, 1880-1934 -- The Mexican community in the United States, 1933-1939 -- The Mexican government and repatriation: November 1934-June 1936 -- From the creation of the Demography and Repatriation Section to the elaboration of a repatriation project, July 1936-October 1938 -- The repatriation project, 1938-1939 -- Spanish refugees, the repatriated, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley -- The 18 March agricultural colony in Tamaulipas, 1939-1940 -- The end of the project, 1939-1940
Summary "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
Notes Translation of: Que se queden allá : el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 5, 2019)
Subject Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970.
SUBJECT Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970
Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 fast
Cárdenas, Lázaro 1895-1970 gnd
Subject Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century
Mexican Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century
Mexicans -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Return migration -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans -- Employment
Mexicans -- Employment
Politics and government
Return migration
Migration
Rückwanderung
Mexikanischer Einwanderer
Mexikanischer Arbeitnehmer
Einwanderungspolitik
Repatriierung
Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929-1932
SUBJECT Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084613
Subject Mexico
United States
Mexiko
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Davidson, Russ, translator
Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781469634289
9781469634272
1469634279
1469634287
Other Titles Que se queden allá. English