Description
Book SynopsisThe first decades of the twentieth century were crucial for the development of Mexican circular family migration, a process shaped by family and community networks as much as it was fashioned by labor markets and economic conditions. Even the Women Are Leavingexplores bidirectional migration across the US-Mexico border from 1890 to 1965 and centers the experiences of Mexican women and families. Highlighting migrant voices and testimonies, Larisa L. Veloz depicts the long history of family and female migration across the border and elucidates the personal experiences of early twentieth-century border crossings, family separations, and reunifications. This book offers a fresh analysis of the ways that female migrants navigated evolving immigration restrictions and constructed binational lives through the eras of the Mexican Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Bracero Program.
Table of ContentsContents
List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
THE FIRST WAVE: SEEING WORK AND FAMILY ACROSS OPEN BORDERS
1 • “And They Go Silently:” Pioneering Family Migrations, 1890–1920
2 • From Revolution to Exodus: Going North in Times of Conflict, 1915–1929
PART II
RETURN FLOW: FORCING REPATRIATION, KEEPING COMMUNITY
3 • The Great Depression and The Great Return: Coming Home, 1929–1936
4 • Good Presidents, Bad Husbands, and Dead Fathers: Trials of Binational Living, 1934–1940
PART III
THE NEW WAVE: RECRUITING MEN, WOMEN KEEP COMING
5 • War and a New Migration Order: Nations Seek Braceros, Women Make Families, 1940–1947
6 • The Era of Policing: Women Beyond Control, 1945–1965
Epilogue. Fit to Be Migrants: Undocumenting Lives, 1965–1986
Appendix: Repatriation Train Statistics Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index
