Between here and there

• Verfasst von: Morales, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Between here and there
• Titelzusatz: creating the political economy of Mexican migration, 1900-1942
• Verf.angabe: Daniel Morales
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 26, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-761263-7
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197612590.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: History of the Americas
• K10plus-PPN: 1909913383
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

The migration between Mexico and the US is the largest emigration of people between two states in modern history. Today, 36 million Mexican Americans call the US home. The Bracero period and recent Mexican migration have been well explored, but little is known about how mass migration arose in the first half of the 20th century. 'Between Here and There' investigates the creation of modern US-Mexico migration patterns narrated from multiple sites on the borders and interior states. It illustrates how large-scale migration became entrenched in the socioeconomic fabric of both nations, drawing on the largest cohort study of Mexican migration during these decades. Through an analysis of the interplay between the US and Mexican governments, civic organizations, and migrants on both sides of the border, it offers a revisionist and comprehensive view of Mexican migration as a socio-economic system.

Abstract

"Between Here and There is the first history of the creation of modern US-Mexico migration patterns narrated from multiple geographic and institutional sites. This book analyzes the interplay between the US and Mexican governments, civic organizations, and migrants on both sides of the border and offers a revisionist and comprehensive view of Mexican migration as it was established in the early twentieth century and reproduced throughout the century as a socioeconomic system that reached from Texas borderlands to western agricultural regions like California as well as to Midwestern farming and industrial areas. The book illustrates how large-scale migration became entrenched in the socioeconomic fabric of the United States and Mexico. Mexican migration operates through an interconnected transnational migrant economy made up of self-reinforcing local economic logics, information diffusion, and locally based transnational social networks. From central Mexico, the book expands across the United States and back to Mexico to show how the migrant economy spread and reacted to the political and economic crisis in the 1930s. In the 1930s, migrants fought for recognition in both societies. Those who returned to Mexico used an expansive vision to lay claim to citizenship and land there. Those who stayed in the United States joined efforts to lay claim to better pay, working conditions, and rights from the New Deal state, creating a base for later organizing. These dynamics shaped the establishment of the Bracero Program that brought in more than four million workers and has continued to frame large-scale Mexican migration until today"--