Mexico-U.S. Migration and the Nation-State: A Transnational Perspective on Transformations since 1990

2019 ◽  
Vol 684 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Judith A. Boruchoff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Mexican Government

This article examines Mexico-U.S. migration from a transnational perspective, explaining the implications of cross-border ties for the nation-state. It builds on 30 years of original research in Mexico and the United States, and contributions of the Mexican Migration Project and other research that show that conventional understandings of the nation-state have become inadequate. Focusing on relations between migrants and the Mexican government as well as their struggles for inclusion in the United States, it demonstrates how each nation-state is transformed as migrants maintain attachments and participate simultaneously in countries of origin and destination. It advances scholarship on this topic by specifying how, in each case, the connections among territory, state, and nation are changing in distinct ways. In the case of Mexico, the state framework is extended beyond geographical borders to encompass extraterritorial citizens within the nation. In the United States, a disjuncture between state and nation is emerging within the bounds of the national territory.

Necessities of State: Police, Sovereignty, and the Constitution

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Tomlins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Law

Over the last fifteen years, legal historians have been exploring conceptualizations of the state and state capacity as phenomena of police. In this essay, I offer a genealogy of police in nineteenth-century American constitutional law. I examine relationships among several distinct strands of development: domestic regulatory law, notably the commerce power; the law of indigenous peoples and immigrants; and the law of territorial acquisition. I show that in state and federal juridical discourse, police expresses unrestricted and undefined powers of governance rooted in a discourse of sovereign inheritance and state necessity, culminating in the increasingly pointed claim that as a nation-state the United States possesses limitless capacity “to do all acts and things which independent states may of right do.”

scholarly journals Canada’s Post 9/11 Security Environment: The State Of Immigration Policy And Border Management In Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Brugger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
National Security ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Reformation

In the post 9/11 era the governments of Canada and the United States are faced with the challenge of enhancing national security while maintaining the flow of goods, services, and people. In addressing this matter, Canada has confronted some difficulty in the reformation of its security and immigration policies in attempting to strike a balance between meeting the demands of the United States, while also taking domestic considerations into account such as respect for human rights. Given the high levels of immigration seen in Canada, many believe that Canada is leaving itself open to cross border activities that pose threats to national security. As a result, it is questionable whether Canada’s border management initiatives are properly equipped to combat threats to national security considering the effects high levels of immigration can have on border management efforts.

Neutrality-Diplomacy of the United States and Mexico, 1910–1911

1956 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Berbusse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
Mexican Government

The civil conflict within Mexico, 1910 to 1911, brought an active intervention from the United States. It was an interference that both elicited a sharp diplomatic exchange, and tested the neutrality statutes of the United States for clarity and sincerity. Among the members of the Taft Cabinet, there was disagreement on the interpretation of these statutes. The state governments, at best, gave official approval to the confused federal policy. American citizens along the Mexican border boldly assisted the revolutionary government of Francisco Madero, while ignoring the neutrality statutes of the United States. The purpose of this paper is to present the various interpretations of neutrality that arose in the State Department’s “Instructions” to its officers, the official correspondence between Cabinet officers, and the formal replies to the protesting Mexican government.

They Should Stay There

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso ◽  
Mark Overmeyer-Velazquez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
History Of

This book provides an overview of the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth century’s most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to be in the twenty-first. This book details how, at the Great Depression’s advent, the United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican government was fearful of the resulting economic implications, President Lázaro Cárdenas fostered the repatriation effort for mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of Mexican domestic and foreign policy, this book connects the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless political tumult surrounding today’s borderlands immigration issues.

scholarly journals NEO-LIBERALISM, NAFTA, AND THE STATE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN LABOUR MOVEMENTS

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Crow ◽  
Greg Albo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Organization Of Work ◽  
The North ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
Local Plant ◽  
The Common

The consolidation of neo-liberalism since the 1980s has presented several challenges to unions in North America. Through the restructuring of the state and the promotion of globalization, neo-liberalism has made the terrain of struggle more daunting for unions. Changes in the organization of work are also implicated in the common threats to organized labour and workers more generally. These common pressures on labour in Canada, the United States and Mexico, however, have resulted in different outcomes for the three movements. Many have suggested that these common pressures should be met with an increased emphasis on transnational labour cooperation. It is argued here it is possible to build international solidarity without first building union capacities at the level of the local plant and at the level of the nation state.

scholarly journals Canada’s Post 9/11 Security Environment: The State Of Immigration Policy And Border Management In Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Brugger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
National Security ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Reformation

In the post 9/11 era the governments of Canada and the United States are faced with the challenge of enhancing national security while maintaining the flow of goods, services, and people. In addressing this matter, Canada has confronted some difficulty in the reformation of its security and immigration policies in attempting to strike a balance between meeting the demands of the United States, while also taking domestic considerations into account such as respect for human rights. Given the high levels of immigration seen in Canada, many believe that Canada is leaving itself open to cross border activities that pose threats to national security. As a result, it is questionable whether Canada’s border management initiatives are properly equipped to combat threats to national security considering the effects high levels of immigration can have on border management efforts.

The State of the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-66
Author(s):  
Andrew Preston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Trump Administration

This chapter calls for a renewal of social democracy in the United States, in line with the successes of other more Wilsonian states around the world. The author chronicles the creation and development of the nation-state to explain its importance in governance, as well as some of the ways American governance is failing to live up to the promises of its history and potential. The chapter proposes that government is not the problem but can instead be part of the solution. Relating this idea to the Trump administration, the author concludes by arguing that reassessing the state’s role and purpose in society can promote American democracy, prosperity, and security.

The Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Time Limit ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
To Receive

With the enactment on December 19, 1942, of the misnamed “Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942,” American nationals with claims based upon the international responsibility of Mexico for acts or omissions in contravention of international law appear likely to receive long-delayed satisfaction. Some of the claims are more than 60 years old. Awards were made by the United States-Mexican General Claims Commission in favor of some of the claimants more than 15 years ago, but to date no money has been paid to the beneficiaries of these awards. Various factors appear to have made this claims arbitration one of the most dilatory, inefficient, and unfortunate in our history. Claimants were notoriously lax in presenting evidence to the State Department, although in some cases they appear to have been hindered by the Mexican Government from obtaining necessary evidence in Mexico. The preambles to three conventions extending the life of the General Claims Commission allege that “it now appears” or “it has been found” that the Commission could not hear, examine, and decide the claims within the time limit fixed; but Judge Fred K. Nielsen, American Commissioner on that court, has pointed out with some vigor that it was not the Commission, so much as the failure of American counsel and the Department of State, to prepare cases for presentation to the Commission, which caused the delay and paucity of decisions. Resignations of Commissioners, protracted delays in replacing them, antagonisms between Commissioners, and lack of cooperation by the Mexican Government were other factors contributing to the 19-year delay in effecting a settlement.

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