Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century. Mexico developed a robust immigration policy after becoming an independent nation in 1821, but was unable to attract European settlers for a variety of reasons. As the United States expanded toward Mexico's northern frontiers, Mexicans in those areas now lost to the United States were subsequently seen as an ideal group to colonize and settle the fractured republic.

• | Author: José Angel Hernández
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: January 11, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1107012392
• | ISBN-13: 9781107012394