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Porous borders : multiracial migrations and the law in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Julian Lim

Lim, Julian [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource : Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

The David J. Weber series in the New Borderlands history

Previously issued in print: 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4696-3550-7 ; 978-1-46-963549-1

MS 3600 MS 1235 MS 1240

 

USA  Mexiko  Grenzgebiet  Einwanderer  Multikulturelle Gesellschaft  Recht  Geschichte 1880-1935 

 

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With the railroad's arrival in the late 19th century, immigrants of all colours rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples crossed multiple boundaries in search of new economic opportunities and social relations. However, as these migrants came together in ways that blurred and confounded elite expectations of racial order, both the United States and Mexico resorted to increasingly exclusionary immigration policies in order to make the multiracial populations of the borderlands less visible within the body politic, and to remove them from the boundaries of national identity altogether.