Naturalized Mexicans in the first half of the 20th Century. A quantitative approach

This article is based on the reconstruction of the naturalization documents issued by Mexican governments over the course of nearly two centuries. This information is used to explore the quantitative dimension of naturalization policy during the first half of the 20th Century. How many foreigners we...

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Autor: Yankelevich, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Historia Mexicana
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/3120
Acceso en línea:https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3120
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mexico
foreign
legislation
19th Century
México
extranjeros
naturalización
siglo XX
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Sumario:This article is based on the reconstruction of the naturalization documents issued by Mexican governments over the course of nearly two centuries. This information is used to explore the quantitative dimension of naturalization policy during the first half of the 20th Century. How many foreigners were naturalized and what were their national origins? What was the distribution by sex, marital status, place of residence and occupation? Was the number of naturalized foreigners increased by policies that created exceptions benefitting certain groups of immigrants? Is it possible to find correlations between new migratory flows and the management of naturalization policy? Did changes in immigration policy affect the number of naturalizations? Among others, these questions guide the article's quantitative research into the naturalization of foreigners in decades that saw record naturalization rates despite the powerful nationalism that shaped the most restrictive immigration policies in Mexican history.