Return to Aztlan

Migration from Mexico to the United States became a major issue in the 1980s. Large and growing populations of Mexicans appeared suddenly in American towns and cities, and migrants seemed to arrived in greater numbers every day. But the emergence of mass Mexican migration was not really sudden at all; it was the end result of a dynamic social process set in motion many yaers before. Return to Aztlan analyzes the social process of international migration through an intensive study of four carefully chosen Mexican communities. The book combines historical, anthropological, and survey data to construct a vivid and comprehensive picture of the social dynamics of contempporary Mexican migration to the Uniated States.