Even the Women Are Leaving

Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965

Larisa L. Veloz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39270-0 (ISBN)

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The first decades of the twentieth century were crucial for the development of Mexican circular family migration, a process shaped by family and community networks as much as it was fashioned by labor markets and economic conditions. Even the Women Are Leaving explores bidirectional migration across the US-Mexico border from 1890 to 1965 and centers the experiences of Mexican women and families. Highlighting migrant voices and testimonies, Larisa L. Veloz depicts the long history of family and female migration across the border and elucidates the personal experiences of early twentieth-century border crossings, family separations, and reunifications. This book offers a fresh analysis of the ways that female migrants navigated evolving immigration restrictions and constructed binational lives through the eras of the Mexican Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Bracero Program.

Larisa L. Veloz is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Contents

List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I
THE FIRST WAVE: SEEING WORK AND FAMILY ACROSS OPEN BORDERS

1 • “And They Go Silently:” Pioneering Family Migrations, 1890–1920
2 • From Revolution to Exodus: Going North in Times of Conflict, 1915–1929

PART II
RETURN FLOW: FORCING REPATRIATION, KEEPING COMMUNITY

3 • The Great Depression and The Great Return: Coming Home, 1929–1936
4 • Good Presidents, Bad Husbands, and Dead Fathers: Trials of Binational Living, 1934–1940

PART III
THE NEW WAVE: RECRUITING MEN, WOMEN KEEP COMING

5 • War and a New Migration Order: Nations Seek Braceros, Women Make Families, 1940–1947
6 • The Era of Policing: Women Beyond Control, 1945–1965
Epilogue. Fit to Be Migrants: Undocumenting Lives, 1965–1986

Appendix: Repatriation Train Statistics Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2023
Zusatzinfo	6 b&w illustrations, 6 maps, 9 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-39270-1 / 0520392701
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39270-0 / 9780520392700
Zustand	Neuware