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Mexicans --- San Antonio (Tex.)

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Mexicans in the United States

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Discouraged by widespread unemployment and alarmed by anti-Mexican sentiment, nearly five hundred thousand Mexican Americans returned to Mexico between 1929 and 1939. Historian Abraham Hoffman captures the despair of these thousands of people of Mexican descent-including those with U.S. citizenship-who were actively coerced into leaving the country. Prior to 1931, many Mexican Americans left the United States voluntarily, prompted by homesickness, unemployment, and the Mexican government's offer of free small land parcels. As the Great Depression deepened, repatriation pressures increased. Anglo groups lobbied for laws that excluded aliens from jobs and welfare benefits. Many businessmen, government officials, and social workers believed that removing Mexican Americans would open up jobs for U.S. citizens and alleviate some of the burden placed on relief agencies. The Department of Labor's federal deportation drive, launched in 1931, created an atmosphere of fear and tension in Mexican American communities. Immigration agents conducted surprise searches for people who had entered the country illegally, and Mexicans who had crossed the border before restrictive legislation was passed became prime targets of the deportation campaign. Welfare agencies throughout the United States organized repatriation programs. The Los Angeles County Welfare Bureau, with the most extensive program, was responsible for the removal of more than thirteen thousand Mexican Americans. A few well-publicized deportations had frightened Mexicans who were unsure of their immigration status. Many chose repatriation over possible deportation. Using much archival material and many previously unpublished government documents, Hoffman focuses on the repatriation experience in Los Angeles. The city's large Mexican American population provides an excellent case study of the entire movement. He also surveys the process of Mexican repatriation throughout the entire United States.

Mexicans --- History. --- United States --- Mexico --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnology --- Immigration

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Mexicans --- Identity (Psychology) --- Group identity --- Mexicains --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Identité collective --- Ethnic identity --- Identité ethnique --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales

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Une étude consacrée aux jeunes zapatistes qui décident d'émigrer aux Etats-Unis. Elle en examine les raisons, la manière dont les jeunes migrants négocient leur départ avec le mouvement zapatiste et leurs communautés, le sens qu'ils donnent à leur départ, leurs parcours une fois arrivés sur le sol américain, leurs expériences de l'illégalité, du racisme et de l'exploitation.

Mexicans --- Mexicains --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) --- Chiapas (Mexico) --- Chiapas (Mexique) --- Emigration and immigration. --- History --- Emigration et immigration --- Histoire