mexicans

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mexicans

Mexican emigration to the United States, 1897-1931

socio-economic patterns
1980
Examines the effects of assimilation, settlement patterns, and ethnic relations on the dynamics of Mexican emigration.

From north to south

2010
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, Jos? and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.

The tortilla curtain

1996
Tells the explosive story of yuppies, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, a stay-at-home dad and his real-estate whiz wife, and their clash with C?ndido and Am?rica Rinc?n, illegal aliens who have crossed into California from Mexico and are living in a camp awaiting the birth of their baby.

Harvest

2001
Photographs and text portray the lives of migrant farm laborers who have come to the U.S. from Mexico.

The Mexican Americans

1996
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of Mexican Americans, including their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America. Also examines the factors that have encouraged emigration from Mexico.

The Shadow catcher

a U.S. agent infiltrates Mexico's deadly crime cartels
2012
U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta worked in high stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico's immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels. For thirty years his work regularly made headlines but his book goes beyond the headlines and shows what an agent has to endure in order to make sure U.S. law is enforced.

Under the same sky

2005
While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.

Crossing the wire

2007
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.

Mexican voices

an oral history of Mexican immigration to the United States
1990
Examines the heritage of the Mexican people and their life in the United States through their own words.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

2003
Profiles the man called one of California's most important founding fathers, who fought for the rights of the Native Americans there while paving the way for California to join the United States.

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