| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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La emigración de San Luis Potosí a Estados Unidos: Pasado y presente (Immigration from San Luis Potosí to the United States: Past and present). Ed. by Fernando Saúl Alanis Enciso. (San Luis Potosí, Mexico: Colegio de San Luis, 2001. 172 pp. Paper, $25.40.) In Spanish.
This interesting little book is a collection of half a dozen research papers that study the immigration of Mexicans to the United States, mostly in the second half of the twentieth century, from the state of San Luis Potosí in north central Mexico. The contributions answer the questions, Who migrated and how? and, How did the move change the immigrants?	1
The Mexican diaspora began during the regime of President Porfirio Díaz (1884–1911), whose program to modernize Mexico included the construction of a railroad system connecting Mexico to the United States. The exodus of Mexicans continued in earnest during the revolution of 1910 and its aftermath. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants met the labor needs created by the expansion of agribusiness in the American Southwest and by twentieth-century urban growth there and elsewhere in the United States. During World War II, thousands more Mexicans emigrated under the auspices of the bracero (guest worker) program, and possibly an equal number arrived as undocumented laborers.	. . .

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