Porous Borders - 9781469659145

Name: Porous Borders - 9781469659145
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

Porous BordersMultiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands\nAuthor(s): Julian Lim\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469659145, 978-1469659145\nSynopsis\nWith the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the [url] borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples crossed multiple boundaries in search of new economic opportunities and social relations. However, as these migrants came together in ways that blurred and confounded elite expectations of racial order, both the United States and Mexico resorted to increasingly exclusionary immigration policies in order to make the mul.