ISBN:
9781469635507
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
The David J. Weber series in the New Borderlands history
DDC:
305.906912073
Keywords:
Geschichte 1880-1935
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Einwanderer
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Recht
;
Immigrants
;
Immigrants
;
Emigration and immigration law
;
Emigration and immigration law
;
Racially mixed people
;
Racially mixed people
;
USA
;
Mexiko
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2017
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635491.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635491.001.0001
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