The Others: Race, Regulations, and Corruption in Mexico's Migration and Naturalization Policies, 1900-1950 Yankelevich Pablo
The Others: Race, Regulations, and Corruption in Mexico's Migration and Naturalization Policies, 1900-1950 Yankelevich Pablo The Others reconstructs the history of migration and naturalization of…
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The Others: Race, Regulations, and Corruption in Mexico's Migration and Naturalization Policies, 1900-1950 Yankelevich Pablo
The Others reconstructs the history of migration and naturalization of foreigners in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century.Despite never receiving large influxes of foreigners, paradoxically Mexico has applied particularly tight controls on migration and naturalization. In a nation riven by ethnic prejudices and with post-revolutionary governments swift to criticize racial discrimination, what can explain the strong racialization of naturalization and migration policies? Why did it choose to limit the arrival of foreigners when their numbers were so low as a proportion of the total population?
First published in Spanish, this award-winning book sheds light on the origins of many migration-related problems still plaguing the Mexican government: irregular migration to the United States, the lack of any genuine control over the arrival and residence of