Repatriation of Certain Former American Citizens
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States Congress House Commi
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021104915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating historical document offers a glimpse into the politics and policies surrounding repatriation during World War I. Featuring testimony from government officials, legal experts, and private citizens, this report provides a valuable resource for researchers and scholars of history, law, and government. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Francisco E. Balderrama
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006-05-31
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0826339743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexican community. Laws forbidding employment of Mexicans were accompanied by the hue and cry to "get rid of the Mexicans!" The hysteria led pandemic repatriation drives and one million Mexicans and their children were illegally shipped to Mexico. Despite their horrific treatment and traumatic experiences, the American born children never gave up hope of returning to the United States. Upon attaining legal age, they badgered their parents to let them return home. Repatriation survivors who came back worked diligently to get their lives back together. Due to their sense of shame, few of them ever told their children about their tragic ordeal. Decade of Betrayal recounts the injustice and suffering endured by the Mexican community during the 1930s. It focuses on the experiences of individuals forced to undergo the tragic ordeal of betrayal, deprivation, and adjustment. This revised edition also addresses the inclusion of the event in the educational curriculum, the issuance of a formal apology, and the question of fiscal remuneration. "Francisco Balderrama and Raymond Rodríguez, the authors of Decade of Betrayal, the first expansive study of Mexican repatriation with perspectives from both sides of the border, claim that 1 million people of Mexican descent were driven from the United States during the 1930s due to raids, scare tactics, deportation, repatriation and public pressure. Of that conservative estimate, approximately 60 percent of those leaving were legal American citizens. Mexicans comprised nearly half of all those deported during the decade, although they made up less than 1 percent of the country's population. 'Americans, reeling from the economic disorientation of the depression, sought a convenient scapegoat' Balderrama and Rodríguez wrote. 'They found it in the Mexican community.'"--American History
Author: Abraham Hoffman
Publisher: VNR AG
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780816503667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 592
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Government Printing Office
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Weiss
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1683401859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engaging a longstanding controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research. Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer critique repatriation laws and support the view that anthropologists should prioritize scientific research over other perspectives.