Deportation, Diplomacy, and Defiance: New Research on Mexican Migration

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This essay reviews the following works: They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression. By Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso. Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xxvi + 272. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781469634265. (Original work published in 2007 as Que se queden allá: El gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos, 1934–1940). Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico. By Beth C. Caldwell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 248. $25.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003908. Outsourcing Welfare: How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries. By Roy Germano. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 227. $33.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190862848. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. By Adam Goodman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 336. $19.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780691204208. Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom. By Mireya Loza. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xiii +254. $29.95 paperback ISBN: 9781469629766. Risking Immeasurable Harm: Immigration Restriction and US-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932. By Benjamin C. Montoya. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 342. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781496201294. Diplomacia migratoria: Una historia transnacional del Programa Bracero, 1947–1952. By Catherine Vézina. Mexico City: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018. Pp. xi + 404. $13.99 e-book. ISBN: 9786078508082.