Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1469635496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Julian Lim is assistant professor of history at Arizona State University
What makes this study original is its substantive inclusion of Chinese, Black, and Mexicano histories within a single frame. Full of previously untold stories, this book stands to remap our understanding of the border.--Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Lim's innovative treatment of this material will push immigration and race historians to consider longer chronologies and dynamics at play in the borderlands.--Kelly Lytle Hernandez, author of City of InmatesWith lucid prose and binational archival depth, Julian Lim illuminates a key era and location in borderlands history. Starting with the cartographic expedition of 1848, Lim traces the const
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.Using a variety of English- and Spanish-language primary sources from both sides of the border, Lim reveals how a borderlands region that has traditionally been defined by Mexican-Anglo relations was in fact shaped by a diverse population that came together dynamically through work and play, in the streets and in homes, through war and marriage, and in the very act of crossing the border.. 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. 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 activi