Mexico's foremost authority on immigration
Mexican Immigration to the United States: A Study of Human Migration and Adjustment
Publication: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930. First Edition.
Notes: Perhaps the most significant study of Mexican immigrants in the United States, based on extensive field work by Gamio in the 1920s. Gamio was born in Mexico, and trained in anthropology and archaeology at Columbia University, where he obtained a Ph.D.
Gamio predicted that Mexican immigration to the US was about to enter a crisis phase, and he was right. During the early 1930s, the US implemented a massive deportation effort that led to as many as one million immigrants and Mexican Americans being pushed back over the border.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
—Deportee, Woody Guthrie
"Mexico's foremost authority on immigration... Gamio developed a comprehensive analysis of the Mexican immigration experience. His [studies] were based on extensive original research. The findings of these studies were presented at US Congressional hearings on immigration during the 1920s" (Francisco Balderama, Decade of Betrayal, p. 175, 165).
xviii, 262 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing stating "PUBLISHED MAY 1930" on the copyright page). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, darkened at the spine. Scarce in jacket.
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