Immigration: Beyond Tom and Jerry By Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo EX MEX: FROM MIGRANTS TO IMMIGRANTS by Jorge G. Castañeda, The New Press, 2007, 222 pp., $25.95 hardcover
WHILE IN THE UNITED STATES and Mexico it would seem that conventional understandings of national sovereignty, national security, national economy, and national culture have remained static over the past century, the data on Mexican immigration to the United States show that radical change in these areas has occurred right before our eyes. Yet U.S. and Mexican political debates on immigration continue to reflect a hazardous blend of nativism, national identity, and a wide variety of social and economic myths masking greed, ...