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Emigration, Immigration & Migration
A guide to library and online sources with a special focus on U.S. immigration
Web Resources
- Pew Research Center: Hispanic Trends ProjectPew Research Center is a nonpartisan organization that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, and media analysis.
- Mapping the Latino Population, By State, County and CitySee where in the U.S. Hispanic Americans live. Links to several interactive maps. The six groups that have the largest U.S. population are: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Dominican, and Guatemalan. From the Hispanic Trends Project, Pew Research Center.
- TARO: Texas Archival Resources OnlineFind out what types of documents archives in Texas have about Mexican Americans and Latinos.
- UTSA Libraries Special CollectionsSearch extensive holdings of manuscript collections pertaining to Mexican Americans in San Antonio and South Texas.
- Bracero Oral History ProjectThe Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, ended more than four decades ago. This project records the recollections of those involved in the program. Includes audio files and transcripts in PDF.
Search Terms That Work
Library of Congress Subject Headings can be useful search terms.
Mexico Emigration and Immigration
Mexican American Border Region Emigration and Immigration
Mexicans United States History
Mexicans United States Social Conditions
Mexican Americans History
Mexican Americans Ethnic Identity
Mexican Americans Cultural Assimilation
Mexican Americans Social Conditions
Selected Books
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Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931 by Call Number: JV6798 .M6C37Publication Date: c1980
Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration Since 1848 by Call Number: JV7401 .D45 2011Available in print and as an e-book
Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History by Call Number: F395.M5 D37 2009
Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants: A Texas History by Call Number: F395.M5 M46 2011Available in print and as an e-book
Women and Migration in the U. S. - Mexico Borderlands: A Reader by Call Number: JV6602 .W66 2007
Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration by Call Number: JV6895.M48 H66 1994- Mexican Illegal Aliens: A Mexican American Perspective by Call Number: E184.M5 C365 2005
Labor Migration
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Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA by Call Number: E184.M5 M59 2011
Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest by Publication Date: 2016Available as an e-book and in print.
Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States by Call Number: HD8081.M6 G6648 2006
Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers by Call Number: HD8081.M6 B673 1998Available in print or as an e-book.
The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism & Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin by Call Number: F395.M5 R57 2011Available in print or as an e-book.
Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II by Call Number: HD8081.M6 Z36 2009Available in print or as an e-book.
Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 by Call Number: HD1527.C2 G84 1994- Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression; Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939 by Publication Date: 1974Available as an e-book and in print.
The Border
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Family Separation and the U. S. -Mexico Border Crisis by Publication Date: 2020Available as an e-book
Rhetoric and Reality on the U. S.-Mexico Border: Place, Politics, Home by Publication Date: 2021Available as an e-book
Migra! a History of the U.S. Border Patrol by Call Number: JV6483 .H45 2010
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. Mexico Border by Call Number: F786 .S767 2011
Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland by Call Number: F815 .C34 2013
Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands in the New Era by Call Number: F786 .A57 2009
Mexican American Identity: Issues of Ethnicity and Race
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Mexican Americans Across Generations: Immigrant Families, Racial Realities by Call Number: E184.M5 V344 2011
How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts by Call Number: E184.M5 M587 2013
Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity by Publication Date: 1995E-Book
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by Call Number: F869 .L89 M57 1993
