Notes From a Young Historian

How has transnational migration reshaped the relationships that migrating individuals have with their previous communities? Arguably one of the most highly controversial exchanges brought by the United States government on an international scale, is one that not many Americans do not know about, despite the fact that the aftermath of this event plays a major part in their daily lives. Northwest Farm News, September 9, 1943 During the beginning stages of World War II, the United States dealt with an issue of labor shortages which the U.S. government attempted to fulfill both domestically in hiring women to the workforce, and with the aid of foreign citizens who were recruited to meet the agricultural demands required in wartime. In David G. Gutiérrez Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity , Gutiérrez explains that Mexico was reluctant in joining any labor consensus with the United States without obtaining strong assurances tha