TY - BOOK ID - 872691 TI - Foreign immigrants in early Bourbon Mexico : 1700-1760 PY - 1979 VL - 31 SN - 0521220513 0521527058 0511665261 0511865651 9780521220514 9780511665264 9780521527057 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Migration. Refugees KW - History of Mexico KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Immigrants KW - Mexico KW - Emigration and immigration KW - History KW - -Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - -Immigrants KW - -Mexico KW - Meksiko KW - Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku KW - Meksyk KW - Estados Unidos Mexicanos KW - Meḳsiḳe KW - Mexique (Country) KW - Messico KW - Méjico KW - República Mexicana KW - United States of Mexico KW - United Mexican States KW - Anáhuac KW - メキシコ KW - Mekishiko KW - מקסיקו KW - -Migration. Refugees KW - Emigrants KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Immigrants - Mexico KW - Mexico - Emigration and immigration KW - Mexico - History - Spanish colony, 1540-1810 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:872691 AB - The kings of Spain forbade foreigners and other 'undesirables' to immigrate to Spanish America. They saw aliens as threatening imperial, religious and mercantile security, and it might therefore be assumed that the Spaniards were xenophobic and intolerant. Dr Nunn's study shows that statutes tell only part of the story. In the years 1700-60 some 3 per cent of the foreign-born in Mexico were non-Spaniards who had entered the colony illegally. Who were these people, where did they come from, and what were their motives? In answering these questions, Dr Nunn demonstrates how illegal immigrants often escaped official detection and how even those known to the authorities were usually allowed to remain and make new lives for themselves. Neither Protestant nor Jew went to the stake in eighteenth-century Mexico. Harassment was more likely to come from officials seeking funds for an impecunious government than from the Inquisition. ER -