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 Three - Postwar Repatriation and Settling the Frontiers of New Mexico
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
INTRODUCTION: A DOMINANT NATIONALIST DISCOURSE
Continuing on to the national level, we now turn to the colonies that eventually made it to Mexico after the war, examining the many problems repatriates encountered in their quest for funds, permission to repatriate and settle, and to figure out who was in charge.
The end of the war brought the creation of a commission dedicated to the repatriation and resettlement of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. To this end, the northern frontier was divided into three regions, and a commission was assigned to each. Because the New Mexico Territory was the most heavily populated, the commission for this region was considered the most important of the three. Postwar instabilities, strapped financial resources, shifting geo-political boundaries, resistance by U.S. authorities, and internal accusations of financial mismanagement and corruption all contributed to the dissolution of these initial repatriation commissions. Yet colonies nevertheless emerged along the northern frontiers between Chihuahua and the New Mexico Territory, due mainly to the will and survival skills of the repatriates themselves.
The history of Mexican American repatriation during the nineteenth century touches equally on the historiographies of the United States, Mexico, the borderlands, and Mexican American Studies, yet this historically signii cant, but little known episode has been discussed to a limited extent in the academic literature. Nonetheless, repatriation efforts have not received nearly the scholarly attention they merit as transcripts for an alternative reading of national, cultural, and racial formation along the U.S.-Mexico border during this period.
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- Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth CenturyA History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, pp. 97 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012