Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Migration to Mexico in an Age of Global Immigrations
- Chapter One From Conquest to Colonization
- Chapter Two Postwar Expulsions and Early Repatriation Policy
- Part II México Perdido and the Making of Postwar Repatriation Programs Along the Borderlands
- Chapter Three Postwar Repatriation and Settling the Frontiers of New Mexico
- Chapter Four Repatriations Along the International Boundary
- Part III The Local Mixing, Unmixing, and Remixing of a Repatriate Colony in Chihuahua
- Chapter Five The 1871 Riot of La Mesilla, New Mexico
- Chapter Six Colonizing La Ascensión, Chihuahua
- Chapter Seven Anatomy of The 1892 Revolt of La Ascensión, or the Public Lynching of Rafael Ancheta
- Conclusion Repatriating Modernity?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter Two - Postwar Expulsions and Early Repatriation Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Migration to Mexico in an Age of Global Immigrations
- Chapter One From Conquest to Colonization
- Chapter Two Postwar Expulsions and Early Repatriation Policy
- Part II México Perdido and the Making of Postwar Repatriation Programs Along the Borderlands
- Chapter Three Postwar Repatriation and Settling the Frontiers of New Mexico
- Chapter Four Repatriations Along the International Boundary
- Part III The Local Mixing, Unmixing, and Remixing of a Repatriate Colony in Chihuahua
- Chapter Five The 1871 Riot of La Mesilla, New Mexico
- Chapter Six Colonizing La Ascensión, Chihuahua
- Chapter Seven Anatomy of The 1892 Revolt of La Ascensión, or the Public Lynching of Rafael Ancheta
- Conclusion Repatriating Modernity?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter takes us from the global perspective of the previous chapter to a more hemispheric or binational perspective that examines a series of expulsions that occurred in the lead up to the Mexican American War and then continued throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. As such, I will not be discussing the coming or process of the war per se, only one manifestation of this event, which shaped the formation of Mexican immigration and colonization policy, particularly for populations outside of state control. Specifically, this chapter also examines a brief history of early nineteenth century expulsions at a moment when immigration policy came face to face with military concerns. Repatriates, especially those expelled from Texas and California, were not only recommended as ideal colonists for the fractured republic, but seen as the most obvious choice for this particular line of defense . “There can certainly be no better colonists for our borders,” at least according to General Bonilla of Mexico’s Ministry of War and Marine, than those “instructed with hard experience, as well as with the falsehood of encouraging promises that the Americans are used to making . . . .” Mexicans in the United States, the thinking went, would be more anti-American precisely because of their “intimate contact” with Euro Americans.
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- Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth CenturyA History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, pp. 67 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012