Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration

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From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today.

Homelands is the story of Mexican immigration to the USA over the last three decades. Written by Alfredo Corchado, some of the prominent Mexican American journalists, it’s told from the perspective of four friends who first meet in a Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia in 1987. One was a radical activist, another a restaurant/tequila entrepreneur, the third a lawyer/politician, and the fourth, Alfredo, a hungry young reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Over the course of thirty years, the four friends continued to meet, coming together to share stories of the turning points in their lives-the death of parents, the births of children, professional milestones, stories from their families north and south of the border.

The usage of the lens of this intimate narrative of friendship, the book chronicles one of modern The usa’s most profound transformations-all over which Mexican Americans swelled to turn into our largest single minority, changing the color, economy, and culture of The usa itself. In 1970, the Mexican population was just 700,000 people, but despite the recent decline in Mexican immigration to the USA, the Mexican American population has now passed three million-end result of the high birth rates here in the USA. In the wake of the nativist sentiment unleased in the recent election, Homelands will be a should-read for policy makers, activists, Mexican Americas, and all those wishing to actually have in mind the background of our ongoing immigration debate.

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