Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965The 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. |
Contents
Pioneering Family | 23 |
Mexican Revolution Refugees | 37 |
Crossing the international bridge between Juarez Mexico | 49 |
Times of Conflict 19151929 | 58 |
Major ports of entry along the USMexico border 1923 | 60 |
Routes of repatriation | 106 |
Binational family routes by birthplace | 114 |
Trials of Binational Living 19341940 | 123 |
Nations Seek Braceros | 149 |
Women Beyond Control 19451965 | 172 |
Major ports of entry along the USMexico border 1960 | 175 |
Undocumenting | 213 |
Repatriation Train Statistics Tables | 225 |
Notes | 231 |
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