Book Chapter

Mexican Immigration to the United States

Henderson, Timothy J.

2011

Overview

This chapter contains sections titled: Origins The 1920s and 1930s The Bracero Era 1964–1986 NAFTA and Nativism Bibliography

• Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell
• Subject: Bracero program, plagued from the start by problems and tensions ‐ corruption, issues for aspiring braceros / efforts to contain Mexican immigration ‐ passionate protests from southwestern growers / end of the Bracero program, and Mexican government ‐ Bracero remittances, for Mexico's economy / Mexican government, land for peasant villages ‐ form of ejidos , owned and worked by villagers / Mexican immigration to the United States / NAFTA and nativism ‐ United States economy, going into recession in early 1990s, and undocumented workers made scapegoats / Porfirio Díaz's rule in Mexico, 1876 till 1911 ‐ Mexican migration to the United States, “modernize” Mexico by railroads / railroads, jobs for Mexican workers ‐ connecting regions of the United States / The Bracero Era ‐ Mexicans in 1940s, incentives for going abroad for work / U.S.–Mexican border, in 1848 ‐ with Mexico's loss of its war with the United States
• ISBN: 1405190574, 9781405190572