Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego

As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. The combination of increasing repression and Chicano activism gradually produced a new conception of ethnic and racial community that included both established Mexican Americans and new Mexican immigrants. Here, Jimmy Patino narrates the rise of this Chicano/Mexicano consciousness and the dawning awareness that Mexican Americans and Mexicans would have to work together to fight border enforcement policies that subjected Latinos of all statuses to legal violence.

By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational terrain, Patino fundamentally reorients the understanding of the Chicano movement. Ultimately, Patino tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an "abolitionist" position on immigration--going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike that deportations are inherent to any solutions to the still burgeoning immigration debate.

Author: Jimmy Patiño
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/13/2017
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.69w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781469635569
ISBN10: 1469635569
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies
- Political Science | Public Policy | Immigration

About the Author
Jimmy Patino is assistant professor of Chicano and Latino studies at the University of Minnesota.