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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.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.0468 ALANIS ENCISO    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Language Translated from the Spanish.
Note Translation of: Que se queden allá : el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940).
"Originally published in Spanish with the title Que se queden allá : el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.
Contents Foreword to the English-language edition / by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez -- Foreword to the original edition / by Leticia Calderón Chelius -- Introduction -- 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."--Cover page 4.
Subject Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970.
Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970. (OCoLC)fst00086434
Cárdenas, Lázaro 1895-1970
Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century.
Mexicans -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Return migration -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
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.
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00908700
Mexican Americans. (OCoLC)fst01019072
Mexican Americans -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01019102
Mexicans -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01019251
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Return migration. (OCoLC)fst01096413
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Migration
Rückwanderung
Mexikanischer Einwanderer
Mexikanischer Arbeitnehmer
Einwanderungspolitik
Repatriierung
Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929-1932
Mexiko
United States
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Davidson, Russ, translator.
Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, writer of foreword.
Translation of (work): Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl. Que se queden allá.
Added Title Que se queden allá. English
Story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the Great Depression
ISBN 9781469634258 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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