THE EVOLUTION OF MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: A Case Study (Giannini Foundation of Agricultral Economcs, Series 82-1)

EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATE Copy; no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; nips to edges & soiling (coffee spill?) to back spine. History of Mexican migration to the United States w/case study of Las Anima, a village north of Guadalupe. The 3 large-scale migration periods studied are: The 1st, triggered by internal disorder, US economic growth and the US 1906 band on migrant Asian labor occurred during 1910-1930, ending with the Great Depression; the 2nd was during World War II ("braceros"); and the 3rd wave began in the late 1950.s & early 1960s. A complex evolution . 41 pages in 6 parts: I, Introduction; II, Theories of Migration; III, The Case Study: The Evolution of a Migratory Community; IV, Background Material; V, Directions of Change As a Migratory Community Matures; and VI, Summary & Conclusions, followed by Appendix. Fine copy despite flaws.