The immigration crisis: nativism, armed vigilantism, and the rise of a countervailing movement

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction : the immigration crisis

1. Exodus to the New World and U. S. immigration experience (30,000BC-1930's)

2. U.S. occupation of Aztlán and rise of Mexico's migrant exodus (1848-1940)

3. Era of the Bracero Program and resurgent nativism (1942-1964)

4. Re-Mexicanization of Aztlán and immigration reforms intensify (1965-1989)

5. Decade of growing nativism, xenophobia, and militarization of the Cactus Curtain (1990-1999)

6. Arizona's nativist armed rancher vigilantes and militia crisis (1999-2004)

7. Minuteman Project and the nativist anti-migrant movement (2005-2007)

8. Militias, anti-immigrant hate groups and nativism on the rise (2005-2007)

9. Mexicano's response to the rancher vigilante and rancher crisis (2000-2005)

10. NAHR's struggle against raids and Minutemen Project (2004-2005)

11. The restrictionist nativist legislative surge (2004-2007)

12. Rise of the countervailing Movimento Pro-Migrante (2006)

13. Decline of the Movimento Pro-Migrante and its mobilizations (2006-2007)

Epilogue : the immigration crisis : what now?

Notes

Index

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