Even the Women Are Leaving

Larisa L. Veloz is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Contents

List of Figures and Maps 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART I 
THE FIRST WAVE: SEEING WORK AND FAMILY ACROSS OPEN BORDERS

1 • “And They Go Silently:” Pioneering Family Migrations, 1890–1920 
2 • From Revolution to Exodus: Going North in Times of Conflict, 1915–1929 

PART II 
RETURN FLOW: FORCING REPATRIATION, KEEPING COMMUNITY

3 • The Great Depression and The Great Return: Coming Home, 1929–1936 
4 • Good Presidents, Bad Husbands, and Dead Fathers: Trials of Binational Living, 1934–1940 

PART III
THE NEW WAVE: RECRUITING MEN, WOMEN KEEP COMING 

5 • War and a New Migration Order: Nations Seek Braceros, Women Make Families, 1940–1947 
6 • The Era of Policing: Women Beyond Control, 1945–1965 
Epilogue. Fit to Be Migrants: Undocumenting Lives, 1965–1986 

Appendix: Repatriation Train Statistics Tables 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index