Harald L Berbauer

Migration from Mexico to the United States between 1900 and 1986 Harald L Berbauer

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Salzburg (Institut für Geschichte), course: US History Teile 2,3 und 4, 29 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: This thesis contains a historical overview of the migration from Mexico to the United States from 1900 to 1986 marked by the commencement of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). This thesis can also be used as an overview of the U. S. policy towards mexican citizens in the 20th century. , abstract: This thesis should demonstrate in what dimension the mexican migration set in in the beginning of the 20th century. To show this it is necessary have a look on the immigration policies in the late 19th century. This chapter will be very short to pass into the mexican migration from 1900 to the beginning of the Second World War which marked the end of the so-called "temporary" mexican guestworker movement. Then we are going to have a look on the migration between 1942 and 1964 characterized by the bracero program and second the period after 1964 characterized by opening and liberalizing the United States immigration policy until 1986. In 1986 because a neo-restrictive tendency in immigration policy set in but this will not b part of this analysis.