Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890-1965

by Larisa L. Veloz

Overview

The 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 Leaving explores 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520392694
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/09/2023
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Larisa L. Veloz is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Table of Contents

Contents

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