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- Title
Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s.
- Authors
ANDRÉS, JR., BENNY J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the 1930s repatriation of Mexican migrant workers and their families living in the borderlands of California. The author discusses Mexican involvement in repatriation during the rule of Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, which required cooperation with the U.S. Border Patrol. Repatriation was largely attached to Mexican workers' attempts to improve their working conditions. The origins of repatriation are traced to the establishment of agribusiness in these borderlands in 1900 and the subsequent suppression of labor organizing. Various agricultural strikes are described as well.
- Subjects
MEXICALI Valley (Mexico); UNITED States; MEXICO; REPATRIATION; MIGRANT labor; AGRICULTURAL industries; CARDENAS, Lazaro, 1895-1970; U.S. Border Patrol; STRIKES &; lockouts -- Agricultural laborers; WORK environment; MEXICAN politics &; government, 1810-
- Publication
California History, 2011, Vol 88, Issue 4, p5
- ISSN
0162-2897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/23052283