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Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants.

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EX MEX: FROM MIGRANTS TO IMMIGRANTS

By Jorge G. Castaneda

The New Press, 224 pages

JORGE CASTANEDA, a former foreign minister of Mexico and currently a professor at New York University, has written a highly accessible book that is essential to understanding both Mexican immigration and Mexico's relationship to the United States. His Mexican perspective is also timely, bringing a historical framework that will educate and surprise Americans, for whom it is written.

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He documents how a pattern of circularity actually began in 1870 with Mexicans crossing to work and then returning to Mexico. Authorized and unauthorized entries and returns continued as the accepted practice until the mid-1990s, when increased border enforcement led to more deaths and higher fees for migrants. This created a shift in ...

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