Porous Borders Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Julian Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lim, Julian, author.

Series:

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Mexico.

Multiracial people.

Multiracial people--United States.

Emigration and immigration law--Mexico.

Emigration and immigration law.

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Immigrants--Mexico.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors 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" -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908524-2-7

979-88-908524-3-4

1-4696-3550-X

1-4696-3551-8

OCLC:

1005843166