They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation During the Great Depression

273 Pages·2017·2.01 MB·English

by  Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso

they
should
stay
there
A book in the series LAtin AmericA in
trAnsLAtion / en trAducción / em trAdução
This book was sponsored by the Consortium in
Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
they
should
stay
there
the story of Mexican Migration and
Repatriation during the Great Depression
Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso
trAnsLAted by Russ Davidson
foreword by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
the university of north cAroLinA Press chAPeL hiLL
Translation of the books in the series Latin America in Translation / en Traducción / em
Tradução, a collaboration between the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University and the university presses
of the University of North Carolina and Duke, is supported by a grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
© 2017 The UniversiTy of norTh Carolina Press
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North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003.
Originally published in Spanish with the title Que se queden allá: El gobierno de México y la
repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934–1940), © 2007 El Colegio de la Frontera Norte,
Tijuana, Baja California, México; El Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. México; and
Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso.
Cover illustration: Mexicans picking cantaloupes, Imperial Valley, California, 1937.
Dorothea Lange, photographer. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
Names: Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl, author. | Davidson, Russ, translator. |
Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, writer of foreword.
Title: They should stay there : the story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the
Great Depression / Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso ; translated by Russ Davidson ; foreword by
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez.
Other titles: Que se queden allá. English | Latin America in translation/en traducción/
em tradução.
Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] | Series: Latin
America in translation/en traducción/em tradução | Translation of: Que se queden allá :
el gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934–1940). |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2017003591 | isbn 9781469634258 (cloth : alk. paper) |
isbn 9781469634265 (pbk : alk. paper) | isbn 9781469634272 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Mexican Americans—History—20th century. | Mexican Americans—
Employment—History—20th century. | Mexicans—Employment—United States—History—
20th century. | Return migration—Mexico—History—20th century. | Mexico—Emigration and
immigration—History—20th century. | Mexico—Emigration and immigration—Government
policy—History—20th century. | United States—Emigration and immigration—History—
20th century. | Mexico—Politics and government—1910–1946. | Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895–1970.
Classification: lcc e184.m5 a65313 2017 | ddc 973/.046872—dc23
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003591
To Manuel García y Griego, friend And mentor
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contents
foreword to the engLish-LAnguAge edition
by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, xi
foreword to the originAL edition
by Leticia Calderón Chelius, xix
Acknowledgments, xxiii
Introduction, 1
chAPter one chAPter five
Migratory Movements between The Repatriation Project,
Mexico and the United States, 1938–1939, 101
1880–1934, 11
chAPter six
chAPter two Spanish Refugees, the
The Mexican Community in the Repatriated, and the Lower
United States, 1933–1939, 30 Rio Grande Valley, 127
chAPter three chAPter seven
The Mexican Government The 18 March Agricultural Colony in
and Repatriation, November Tamaulipas, 1939–1940, 144
1934–June 1936, 51
chAPter eight
chAPter four The End of the Project,
From the Creation of the 1939–1940, 159
Demography and Repatriation
Section to the Elaboration of a Notes, 197
Repatriation Project, July 1936– Bibliography, 219
October 1938, 74 Index, 233
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tables
1.1. Repatriation of Mexicans, 1929–1934, 16
2.1. Mexican-origin population in the United States, 1930–1940, 37
2.2. Legal immigration of Mexicans to the United States, 1935–1940, 40
2.3. Mexicans repatriated from the United States, 1933–1940, 50
5.1. Repatriations requested by Mexican consulates
in the United States, 1 January–31 March 1939, 103
5.2. Data on the project to distribute 1,000 returnees
among local communal agricultural (ejido) credit associations, 111
5.3. Data on Mexican citizens and family members seeking repatriation
to Mexico to settle land furnished by the Mexican government, 115
7.1. Planned monthly distribution of
funds allocated for the 18 March colony, 146