Dangerous Migration

Name: Dangerous Migration
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ISBN: 9780252049576

Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights

Eladio B. Bobadilla

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English

University of Illinois Press
28 April 2026

Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies; Hispanic & Latino studies; Trade unions; Industrial arbitration & negotiation

Series: Working Class in American History

In the post-WWII years, many Mexican Americans viewed undocumented immigration as a threat to their communities. Yet the interplay among Mexican migrants, Mexican Americans, and white Americans eventually produced a vibrant immigrant-oriented activist movement inspired by larger struggles for civil and human rights.

Beginning with Mexican American opposition to the Bracero Program, Eladio Bobadilla traces the movement's fault lines that formed around the issue of undocumented workers. Bobadilla reveals how internationalist and human rights discourse influenced the rise of the Chicano movement and its defense of Mexican undocumented immigrants. As time passed, anti-Mexican social, political, and legislative forces produced a nativist backlash that put immigration at the center of the United States' culture wars and created the fantasy of undocumented workers as an existential threat.

Engaging and vivid, Dangerous Migration illuminates the history of debates over Mexican labor, the emergence of the immigrant rights activism, and the nativist movements that united Latinos with right-wing white Americans.

By: Eladio B. Bobadilla
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252049576
ISBN 10: 0252049578
Series: Working Class in American History
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 28 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eladio Bobadilla is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.