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Beyond borders : a history of Mexican migration to the United States / Timothy J. Henderson.

By: Henderson, Timothy J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Viewpoints/puntos de vista.Publisher: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011Description: ix, 182 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781405194297; 9781405194303 .Subject(s): Mexicans -- United States -- History | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History | Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History | United States -- Relations -- Mexico | Mexico -- Relations -- United StatesDDC classification: 304.873072
Contents:
Introduction -- Beginnings: 1848-1920 -- Restriction, depression, and deportation: the 1920s and 1930s -- The Bracero era: 1942-1964 -- Illegal immigration and response: 1964-1990 -- Free trade and homeland security: 1990-present -- Epilogue and conclusion.
Summary: Traces the history of Mexican migration into the United States, examining early relations between the US and Mexico, and describing key events and incentives, changes to immigration laws, migratory patterns, and related topics.
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Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present day. Considers the issues from the perspectives of both the United States and Mexico Offers a reasoned assessment of the factors that drive Mexican immigration, explains why so many of the policies enacted in Washington have only worsened the problem, and suggests what policy options might prove more effective Argues that the problem of Mexican immigration can only be solved if Mexico and the United States work together to reduce the disequilibrium that propels Mexican immigrants to the United States

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-165) and index.

Introduction -- Beginnings: 1848-1920 -- Restriction, depression, and deportation: the 1920s and 1930s -- The Bracero era: 1942-1964 -- Illegal immigration and response: 1964-1990 -- Free trade and homeland security: 1990-present -- Epilogue and conclusion.

Traces the history of Mexican migration into the United States, examining early relations between the US and Mexico, and describing key events and incentives, changes to immigration laws, migratory patterns, and related topics.

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CHOICE Review

Immigration history between Mexico and the US is vexing and complex. After the borderline was finally drawn in 1853, thousands of square miles of Mexico's land and people became part of the US. Thereafter, multitudes of Mexicans kept crossing north, as no immigration law was enacted or enforced until the 20th century. All the while, the US's prosperous economy kept pulling available, reliable, and cheap labor. On the southern side, poverty and dislocation continued to feed the US need for an affordable labor pool. The Bracero Program during WW II brought in millions of Mexicans on a temporary basis, but when it was discontinued in 1965, undocumented immigration replaced it. The fact is that Mexican migration into the US has created a slanted equation and a stalemate. Henderson (Auburn Univ., Montgomery) argues that both sides have failed to make a workable commitment to resolve a situation that keeps millions of Mexicans living in the US under the shadow of illegality and vulnerable to exploitation. In this respect, the author states that in the US, the much-debated and sought-after immigration reform must bring Mexico to the negotiation table in order to obtain a humane and just solution. Well researched and documented. Very readable narrative. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. M. S. Arbelaez University of Nebraska at Omaha

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Timothy J. Henderson is a Professor of History at Auburn University Montgomery. He is the author or editor of several books on Mexican history, including The Mexican Wars for Independence (2009), A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and its War with the United States (2007), The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2002, co-edited with Gilbert M. Joseph), and The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927 (1998).