Familia : migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800–1975 / Robert R. Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarez, Robert R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--Social conditions.

Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.) : 1 frontisp., 8 maps

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1987]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them. Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offs

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

MAPS

PHOTOGRAPHS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND OF MOBILITY

2. NINETEENTH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS: THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT OF MIGRATION

3. THE SOCIAL, GEOGRAPHIC, AND TEMPORAL BASIS OF NETWORK FORMATION

4. CALMALLÍ: THE MINING CIRCUIT AND EARLY NETWORK DEVELOPMENT, 1880-1910

5. SAN DIEGO AND CALEXICO: THE FRONTERA AND EARLY NETWORK FORMALIZATION

6. SAN DIEGO-LEMON GROVE: FLORESCENCE, 1930-1950

7. EPILOGUE

8. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX: ORIGINAL SPANISH FIELD NOTES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780520342880

0520342887

9780520911109

0520911105

9780585361420

0585361428

OCLC:

1163878062