Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939

• Main Author: Hoffman, Abraham (auth)
• Other Authors: Nava, Julian (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 1974
• Subjects: Humanities; History of the Americas; Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies; History; American Studies; Sociology; Latin American Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Discouraged by widespread unemployment and alarmed by anti-Mexican sentiment, nearly five hundred thousand Mexican Americans returned to Mexico between 1929 and 1939. Historian Abraham Hoffman captures the despair of these thousands of people of Mexican descent-including those with U.S. citizenship-...