WHO WE ARE & OUR GOALS

Mexican

Repatriation We are conscious students from 1930s the University of Michigan who are looking to gain knowledge and inform others about the history of

Mexican Repatriation through a compilation of websites, questionnaires, interviews and other informational sources.

Do you know someone who was deported?

Elena Herrada [email protected] www.losrepatriados.org

MAIL TO: At a viewing of a Repatriate

Elena Herrada documentary in Detroit. 1819 Leverette Left: Mr. Lopez (A 1930 repatriate) Right: Professor Maria Cotera Detroit, MI 48126 Photo from Larry La Fountain-Stokes 2007

Name: ______Address: ______Phone: ______o Yes, I want more information o I would like an interview to tell my story. IMAGE FROM: WWW.HISTORYCOOPERATIVE.ORG REPATRIATION - WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Resources

www.umich.edu/~ac213/ • • www.losrepatriados.org

TIMELINE • www.historycooperative.org One million Mexican immigrants • www.tsha.utexas.edu entered the U.S. between1911 • 1910-17: Mexican and 1929 as political refugees • Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Revolution due to the Mexican Revolution; as Repatriation in the 1930’s, • 1914-18: WWl by Francisco E. Balderrama well as, to meet labor demands during WWI. • 1915: First mass Mexican Repatriation movement • Mexican Workers & American As the U.S. economy began to from Texas Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California falter in the late 1920’s a new • 1917: Law required all sentiment of racial division arose Farm labor 1900-1939 men, including non- within the U.S. by Camille Guerin Gonzales citizens to register for A voluntary repatriation process military service sponsored by the U.S. and 1929-33: Stock Market • Mexican governments was Crash Between 400,000

initiated but expectations of the and 500,000 Mexicans repatriates (incl. no aid, placed in and their children neglected areas, etc.) were not repatriated to Mexico fulfilled by either government. • 1930-1938: The Great This process later became a Depression (a number of forced deportation in the 1930’s repatriate groups enter that included raids in homes Mexico) 1931: Mexican and workplaces. • Repatriation peaked • 1939-1940: A significant amount of repatriates were assisted by the Mexican government