Eladio B. Bobadilla: Dangerous Migration, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Dangerous Migration
- Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights
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- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press, 04/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780252089220
- Item number:
- 12536082
- Volume:
- 228 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 28.4.2026
- Series:
- Working Class in American History
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 131.00* |
Blurb
In the post-WWII years, many Mexican Americans viewed undocumented immigration as a threat to their communities. Yet the interplay among Mexican migrants, Mexican Americans, and white Americans eventually produced a vibrant immigrant-oriented activist movement inspired by larger struggles for civil and human rights.
Beginning with Mexican American opposition to the Bracero Program, Eladio Bobadilla traces the movement's fault lines that formed around the issue of undocumented workers. Bobadilla reveals how internationalist and human rights discourse influenced the rise of the Chicano movement and its defense of Mexican undocumented immigrants. As time passed, anti-Mexican social, political, and legislative forces produced a nativist backlash that put immigration at the center of the United States' culture wars and created the fantasy of undocumented workers as an existential threat.
Engaging and vivid, Dangerous Migrationilluminates the history of debates over Mexican labor, the emergence of the immigrant rights activism, and the nativist movements that united Latinos with right-wing white Americans.