The Mexican Immigrant

Author : George J. Borjas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226066684

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Mexican Immigration to the United States by George J. Borjas Pdf

From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers accounted for 28.3 percent of all foreign-born inhabitants of the United States. Mexican Immigration to the United States analyzes the astonishing economic impact of this historically unprecedented exodus. Why do Mexican immigrants gain citizenship and employment at a slower rate than non-Mexicans? Does their migration to the U.S. adversely affect the working conditions of lower-skilled workers already residing there? And how rapid is the intergenerational mobility among Mexican immigrant families? This authoritative volume provides a historical context for Mexican immigration to the U.S. and reports new findings on an immigrant influx whose size and character will force us to rethink economic policy for decades to come. Mexican Immigration to the United States will be necessary reading for anyone concerned about social conditions and economic opportunities in both countries.

Author : David Gregory Gutiérrez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024743

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Between Two Worlds by David Gregory Gutiérrez Pdf

Although immigrants enter the United States from virtually every nation, Mexico has long been identified in the public imagination as one of the primary sources of the economic, social, and political problems associated with mass migration. Between Two Worlds explores the controversial issues surrounding the influx of Mexicans to America. The eleven essays in this anthology provide an overview of some of the most important interpretations of the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Mexican diaspora.

Author : Judith Adler Hellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015076194441

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The World of Mexican Migrants by Judith Adler Hellman Pdf

Describes the personal stories of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and why they were no longer able to make a living in their homeland following economic and political changes in the 1900s.

Author : David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816518335

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Culture Across Borders by David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek Pdf

For as long as Mexicans have emigrated to the United States they have responded creatively to the challenges of making a new home. But although historical, sociological, and other aspects of Mexican immigration have been widely studied, its cultural and artistic manifestations have been largely overlooked by scholars—even though Mexico has produced the greatest number of cultural works inspired by the immigration process. And recently Chicana/o artists have addressed immigration as a central theme in their cultural productions and motifs. Culture across Borders is the first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture both in Mexico and the United States—and how Mexican and Chicano/Chicana artists, intellectuals, and others have used artistic means to protest the unjust treatment of immigrants by U.S. authorities. Established and upcoming scholars from both sides of the border contribute their expertise in art history, literary criticism, history, cultural studies, and other fields, capturing the many facets of the immigrant experience in popular culture. Topics include the difference between Chicano/a and Mexican representation of immigration; how films dealing with immigrants are treated differently by Mexican, Chicano, and Hollywood producers; the rich literary and artistic production on immigration themes; and the significance of immigration in Chicano jokes. As a first step in addressing the cultural dimensions of Mexican immigration to the United States, this book captures how the immigration process has inspired powerful creative responses on both sides of the border.

Author : Philip Garrison
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550432

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Because I Don't Have Wings by Philip Garrison Pdf

For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant mexicanos are pioneers, still getting used to the Anglos and to each other. This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern U.S. boomtown, a loose collection of families from Michoacán and surrounding states living a mere 150 miles from Canada. They are more isolated than most mexicano communities closer to home, and they endure severe winters that make life more difficult still. Neighborhoods form, dissolve, and re-form. Family members who leave may stay in touch, but friends very often simply vanish, leaving only their nicknames behind. Without a market or a plaza, residents meet at weddings, christenings, and funerals—or at the food bank. Philip Garrison has spent most of his life in this region and shares in vivid prose tales of immigrant life, both contemporary and historical, revealing the dual lives of first-generation Mexican immigrants who move smoothly between the Yakima Valley and their homes in Mexico. And with a scholar’s eye he examines figures of speech that reflect mexicano feelings about immigrant life, offering glimpses of adaptation through offhand remarks, family spats, and town gossip. Written with irony but bursting with compassion, Because I Don’t Have Wings features vivid characters, telling anecdotes, and poignant reflections on life, unfolding an immigrant’s world strikingly different from the one we usually read about. Adaptation, persistence, and survival, we learn, are traits that mexicano culture values. We also learn that, over time, mexicano immigrants don’t merely adapt to the culture of el norte, they transform it.

Author : Emory S. Bogardus,Council on International Relations
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014440416

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The Mexican Immigrant; an Annotated Bibliography by Emory S. Bogardus,Council on International Relations Pdf

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Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258192446

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The Mexican Immigrant by Manuel Gamio Pdf

Author : Victor Zuniga,Ruben Hernandez-Leon
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610445702

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New Destinations by Victor Zuniga,Ruben Hernandez-Leon Pdf

Mexican immigration to the United States—the oldest and largest immigration movement to this country—is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. For decades, Mexican immigration was primarily a border phenomenon, confined to Southwestern states. But legal changes in the mid-1980s paved the way for Mexican migrants to settle in parts of America that had no previous exposure to people of Mexican heritage. In New Destinations, editors Víctor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León bring together an inter-disciplinary team of scholars to examine demographic, social, cultural, and political changes in areas where the incorporation of Mexican migrants has deeply changed the preexisting ethnic landscape. New Destinations looks at several of the communities where Mexican migrants are beginning to settle, and documents how the latest arrivals are reshaping—and being reshaped by—these new areas of settlement. Contributors Jorge Durand, Douglas Massey, and Chiara Capoferro use census data to diagram the historical evolution of Mexican immigration to the United States, noting the demographic, economic, and legal factors that led recent immigrants to move to areas where few of their predecessors had settled. Looking at two towns in Southern Louisiana, contributors Katharine Donato, Melissa Stainback, and Carl Bankston III reach a surprising conclusion: that documented immigrant workers did a poorer job of integrating into the local culture than their undocumented peers. They attribute this counterintuitive finding to documentation policies, which helped intensify employer control over migrants and undercut the formation of a stable migrant community among documented workers. Brian Rich and Marta Miranda detail an ambivalent mixture of paternalism and xenophobia by local residents toward migrants in Lexington, Kentucky. The new arrivals were welcomed for their strong work ethic so long as they stayed in "invisible" spheres such as fieldwork, but were resented once they began to take part in more public activities like schools or town meetings. New Destinations also provides some hopeful examples of progress in community relations. Several chapters, including Mark Grey and Anne Woodrick's examination of a small Iowa town, point to the importance of dialogue and mediation in establishing amicable relations between ethnic groups in newly multi-cultural settings. New Destinations is the first scholarly assessment of Mexican migrants' experience in the Midwest, Northeast, and deep South—the latest settlement points for America's largest immigrant group. Enriched by perspectives from demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, folklorists, and political scientists, this volume is an essential starting point for scholarship on the new Mexican migration.

Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258271311

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The Mexican Immigrant by Manuel Gamio Pdf

Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000079569

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Mexican Immigration to the United States by Manuel Gamio Pdf

Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Mexicans
ISBN : OCLC:760507132

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The Mexican Immigrant, His Life-story by Manuel Gamio Pdf

Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002535602

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The Life Story of the Mexican Immigrant by Manuel Gamio Pdf

"Two events, continents apart and spread over three days, merged into a moment of profound drama which has echoed through time in New Zealand. They were a cricket Test in South Africa and the railway disaster at Tangiwai, which claimed the life of the fiancee of a New Zealand player." -blurb.

Author : Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813520487

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Mexican Workers and American Dreams by Camille Guerin-Gonzales Pdf

Earlier in this century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the United States, attracted by the prospect of work in California's fields. The Mexican farmworkers were tolerated by Americans as long as there was enough work to go around. During the Great Depression, though, white Americans demanded that Mexican workers and their families return to Mexico. In the 1930s, the federal government and county relief agencies forced the repatriation of half a million Mexicans--and some Mexican Americans as well. Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the repatriation program--one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government. She exposes the powers arrayed against Mexicans as well as the patterns of Mexican resistance, and she maps out constructions of national and ethnic identity across the contested terrain of the American Dream.

Author : Luz María Gordillo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292722033

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Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration by Luz María Gordillo Pdf

Weaving narratives with gendered analysis and historiography of Mexicans in the Midwest, Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration examines the unique transnational community created between San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, and Detroit, Michigan, in the last three decades of the twentieth century, asserting that both the community of origin and the receiving community are integral to an immigrant's everyday life, though the manifestations of this are rife with contradictions. Exploring the challenges faced by this population since the inception of the Bracero Program in 1942 in constantly re-creating, adapting, accommodating, shaping, and creating new meanings of their environments, Luz María Gordillo emphasizes the gender-specific aspects of these situations. While other studies of Mexican transnational identity focus on social institutions, Gordillo's work introduces the concept of transnational sexualities, particularly the social construction of working-class sexuality. Her findings indicate that many female San Ignacians shattered stereotypes, transgressing traditionally male roles while their husbands lived abroad. When the women themselves immigrated as well, these transgressions facilitated their adaptation in Detroit. Placed within the larger context of globalization, Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration is a timely excavation of oral histories, archival documents, and the remnants of three decades of memory.

Author : Manuel Gamio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Mexicans
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172101383667

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The Mexican Immigrant, His Life-story by Manuel Gamio Pdf