Porous Borders
Subtitle: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781469635491
Subjects: Immigrants, united states; Emigration and immigration law; Racially mixed people; Mexico, social conditions
Description: "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"--