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Other titles on Illegal immigration:
 
Mexican Illegal
Aliens: A Mexican American Perspective. By Rafael D. Canul, Ph.D.
Edited by John Cise,
University of California,
Berkeley.
ISBN: 0-915745-62-3 $29.95. For class use (bulk
purchases) $22.00
Professor Canul, in this substantial, well-documented and
impressive socio-political and economic analysis, focuses on the difficult and
challenging motives and experiences of Mexicans illegals who have settled in the
U.S. since 1920’s. He illustrates how, despite racial conflicts, the
controversial influx of Mexicans have adapted and contributed to American
society. His rich layers of personalized data yield portraits ranging from those
who cross the borders through the desert or not infrequently
hidden in cars. He describes a rail-road like protection often extended
to the border-crossers
by the established Mexican American community,
who witnesses with pain, empathy, and disgust their
mistreatment and exploitation. He provides a unique
Mexican American perspective on this controversial issue of illegal immigration.
Furthermore, he concludes with a forceful argument that, despite rising nativism
ignited by illegal migrants, they are indispensable
for many sectors of the U.S. economy. The lack of
American political will to address in orderly manner the issue of foreign
workers has victimized the weakest link of a dynamic
and highly profitable economic process: the Mexican illegal aliens. Dr. Canul
provides an ample historical background of how the federal government has
attempted to deal with, and how it has failed to stem the tide of illegal
migration. He also addresses within a historical context the reactions of
Americans to the various waves of immigration from the rise of the antiforeign
Nativists, the restrictive immigration laws and quotas of the 1920s; through the
World War II era, the Bracero Program, the Amnesty declared by
Republican President Ronald Reagan to the present
concerns with the War on Terror. This excellent work is an effective tool for
increasing multicultural awareness and should be an effective teaching guide for
social sciences and humanities.
This book provides the first comprehensive, Mexican American
historical perspective of the Mexican illegal immigration to the United States
during the last 50 years and how this history and current
situation impact on current Mexican
Americans political articulation and discourse.
John Cise, University of California, Berkeley
Floricanto Press is a
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Americans, Mexican immigration, Mexican immigrants, Mexican
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