History of Mexico-U.S. Migration 

Acuña, Rodolfo.

Occupied America: The Chicano’s Struggle Toward Liberation.
San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1972.


Aguila, Jaime R.

Protecting “México de Afuera”: Mexican Emigration Policy, 1876-1928.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Arizona State University, 2000.
Available through Dissertations and Theses.


Alexander, Robin and Peter Gilmore.

“Trade Unionism Across the Border,”
in Fred Rosen and Deidre McFadyen, eds. Free Trade and Economic Restructuring in Latin America: A NACLA Reader.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995, 163-173.


Anzaldúa, Gloria.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987.


Bailey, John and Roy Godson, eds.

Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S. – Mexican Borderlands.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.


Bailey, Samuel L. and Eduardo José Míguez, eds.

Mass Migration to modern Latin America.
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003.



Balderrama, Francisco E.

In Defense of la Raza: The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate, and the Mexican Community, 1929 to 1936.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982.



Balderrama, Francisco E. and Raymond Rodríguez.

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.



Bancroft, Hubert H.

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. vols 1-39.
San Francisco: The History Company, 1886-1890.



Bogardus, Emory S.

The Mexican in the United States.
Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1934.



Bolton, Herbert E.

The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921.



Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo, eds.

Simbiosis de culturas: los inmigrantes y su cultura en México.
Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1993.



Boswell, Thomas.

“The Growth and Proportional distribution of the Mexican Stock Population in the United States, 1910-1970.”
Mississippi Geographer. no. 7, 57-76.



Bustamante, Jorge.

Espaldas mojadas: materia prima para la expansión del capital norteamericano.
Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1977.



Calderón, Roberto.

Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.



Camarillo, Albert.

Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.



Cardoso, Lawrence A.

Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1980.



Carreras de Velasco, Mercedes.

Los mexicanos que devolvió la crisis, 1929-1932.
Mexico City: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1974.

Cockcroft, James D.

Outlaws in the Promised Land: Mexican Immigrant Workers and American’s Future.
New York: Grove Press, 1986.



Daniel, Cletus E.

Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.



Dávila, Arlene.

Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Also available online.


Davis, Marilyn P.

Mexican Voices/American Dreams.
New York: Henry Holt, 1990.



De Leon, Arnoldo.

The Tejano Community, 1836-1900.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.



De Leon, Arnoldo.

They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.



Delpar, Helen.

The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992.



Deutsch, Sarah.

No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier, 1880-1940.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.



Fein, Seth.

“Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: U.S. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico”
in Gilbert M. Joseph et al., eds. Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S. – Latin American Relations.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998, 400-450.



Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia.

For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico’s Frontier.
Albany: State University of New York, 1983.



Foley, Neil.

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Also available online.

French, William.

A Peaceful and Working People.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.



Galarza, Ernesto.

Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story.
Santa Barbara: Mc Nally & Loftin, 1964.



Galarza, Ernesto.

Barrio Boy.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971.

Gamio, Manuel.

Mexican Immigration to the United States: A Study of Human Migration and Adjustment.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930.



Gamio, Manuel.

“The Antecedents of Mexican Immigration to the United States.”
American Journal of Sociology, vol. 35, no. 3, 433-438.



García, Mario T.

Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.



García, Mario T.

“La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought”
in David G. Gutiérrez ed. Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States.
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1996, 89-117.



García, Matt.

A World of its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.



Gómez-Peña, Guillermo.

The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1996.



Gómez-Quiñones, Juan.

Roots of Chicano Politics.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.



Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda and David R. Maciel, eds.

The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.



González, Deena.

Refusing the Favor: Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Also available online.


González, Gilbert G.

Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.



González, Gilbert G. and Raul A. Fernandez.

A Century of Chicano History: Empire Nations, and Migration.
New York: Routledge, 2003.



González, Juan.

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.
New York: Viking, 2000.



González Navarro, Moisés.

Población y sociedad en México, 1900-1970.
Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1974.



González Navarro, Moisés.

Los extranjeros en México y los Mexicanos en el extranjero: 1821-1970. 3 vols.
Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1993.



Grebler, Leo.

Mexican Immigration to the United States: The Record and its Implications.
Los Angeles: University of California, 1966.



Griswold del Castillo, Richard.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.



Guerin-Gonzalez, Camille.

Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.



Gutiérrez, David G.

Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity.
Berkeley: University of California, 1995.



Gutiérrez, Ramón.

When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Also available online.


Hall, Linda B. and Don M. Coerver.

Revolution on the Border: The United States and Mexico, 1910-1920.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.



Handlin, Oscar.

The Uprooted.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1973.
Also available online.

Hart, John Mason, ed.

Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers.
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1998.



Hernández Alvarez, José.

“A Demographic Profile of the Mexican Immigration to the United States, 1910-1950.”
Journal of Inter-American Studies. v.8, no.3, 471-496.
Also available online.


Herrera-Sobek, María.

The Bracero Experience: Elitelore vs. Folklore.
Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1979.



Herrera-Sobek, María.

Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.



Heyman, Josiah.

Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northwestern Sonora, Mexico, 1886-1986.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.



Hinojosa, Gilberto M.

Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983.



Hoffman, Abraham.

Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974.



Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.

Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration.
Berkeley: University of California, 1994.



Joseph, Gilbert M. et al., eds.

Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S. – Latin American Relations.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.



Kiser, George C. and Martha Woody.

Mexican Workers in the United States: Historical and Political Perspectives.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.



Limón, José E.

American Encounters: Greater Mexico and the United States and the Erotics of Culture.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.



Lorey, David E., ed.

United States – Mexico Border Statistics Since 1900.
Los Angeles: University of California, 1993.




Maciel, David R. and María Herrera-Sobek, eds.

Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.



Maciel, David.

Al norte del Río Bravo: pasado inmediato, 1930-1981.
Mexico City: Siglo XXI Editores, 1981.



Martínez, Oscar J.

“On the Size of the Chicano Population: New Estimates, 1850-1900,”
Aztlán, no. 6, 43-67.



Martínez, Oscar J.

Border People: Life and Society in the U.S. – Mexico Borderlands.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.



Martínez, Oscar J., ed.

U.S. – Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1996.




Massey, Douglas, et al. eds.

Return to Aztlán: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.



McCullough, Kenneth Bruce.

America’s Back Door: Indirect International Immigration via Mexico to the United States from 1875 to 1940.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A & M University, 1992.
Available through Dissertation and Theses.


McWilliams, Carey.

North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People in the United States.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.
Also available online.



Monroy, Douglas.

Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.



Montejano, David.

Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987.
Also available online.


Morales, Patricia.

Indocumentados mexicanos: causas y razones de la migración.
Mexico City: Grijalbo, 1989.



Oboler, Suzanne.

Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States.
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.



Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, ed.

Beyond the Border: The History of Mexico-US Migration.
New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.



Padilla, Genaro.

My History, Not Yours.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.



Paredes, Américo.

“With a Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958.



Pitti, Stephen J.

The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.



Portes, Alejandro and Robert L. Bach.

Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.



Poyo Gerald E. and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds.

Tejano Origins in Eighteenth Century San Antonio.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.



Poyo Gerald E. and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds.

“Spanish Texas and Borderlands Historiography in Transition: Implications for United States History.”
Journal of American History, vol. 75, no. 2, 393-416.
Also available online.


Ramón García, Juan.

Operation Wetback: The Mass Deportation of Mexican Underground Workers in 1954.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.



Reisler, Mark.

By the Sweat of their Brow: Mexican Immigrant Labor in the United States.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976.



Rosenthal-Urey, Ina.

“Church Records as a Source of Data on Mexican Migrant Networks: A Methodological Note.”
International Migration Review, vol 18, no. 3, 767-781.



Ruíz, Ramón Eduardo.

The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.



Ruíz, Vicki.

Cannery Women/Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Industry, 1930-1950.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.



Samora, Julian.

Los Mojados: The Wetback Story.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971.



Sánchez, George J.

Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Also available online.


Sandos, James A.

Rebellion in the Borderlands: Anarchism and the Plan of San Diego, 1904-1923.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.



Sandos, James A. and Harry Cross.

“National Development and International Labour Migration: Mexico 1940-1965.”
Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 18, no. 1, 43-60.
Also available online.


Saragoza, Alex.

The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880-1940.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.



Schell, William Jr.

Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911.
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001.



Sheridan, Thomas.

Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986.



Taylor, Paul S.

Mexican Labor in the United States. 10 vols.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1928-34.



Tinker Salas, Miguel.

“Sonora: The Making of a Border Society, 1880-1910.”
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 34, no. 4, 429-456.
Also available online.


Torres, Olga Beatriz.

Memorias de mi viaje/Recollections of My Trip.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.



Vaca, Nick C.

“The Mexican-American in the Social Sciences, 1912-1970, Part I,”
El Grito vol. 3, no. 3 and Part II, El Grito vol. 4, no. 1.



Verea Campos, Mónica.

Entre México y Estados Unidos: Los indocumentados.
Mexico City: Ediciones el caballito, 1985.



Voss, Stuart F.

On the Periphery of Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Sonora and Sinaloa, 1810-1877.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982.



Wasserman, Mark.

Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854-1911.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.



Weber, David J.

The Mexican Frontier, 1821 – 1846.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.
Also available online.


Weber, Devra.

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farmworkers, Cotton and the New Deal.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.



Zavella, Patricia.

Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.