The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration

by Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, Edward Telles

Overview

The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a twenty-first-century political economy and the rise of Donald Trump. Despite the trillion-plus dollar contribution of Latinos to the US GDP, political leaders have paradoxically stirred racial resentment around immigrants just as immigration from Mexico has reached net zero. With a roster of state-of-the-art scholars from both Mexico and the US, The Trump Paradox explores a dilemma for a divided nation such as the US: in order for its economy to continue flourishing, it needs immigrants and trade. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520302570
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/23/2021
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Raúl Hinojosa Ojeda is Associate Professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and is the founder and director of the UCLA North American Integration and Development Center. 
 
Edward Telles is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Research on International Migration at UC Irvine.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction 
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward Telles

PART ONE. The Trump Paradox
1. How Do We Explain Trump’s Paradoxical Yet Electorally Successful Use of a False US-Mexico Narrative?
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward Telles

2. What Were the Paradoxical Consequences of Militarizing the Border with Mexico?
Douglas S. Massey

PART TWO. Mexico-US Migration
3. How Did We Get to the Current Mexico-US Migration System, and How Might It Look in the Near Future?
Silvia E. Giorguli, Claudia Masferrer, and Victor M. García-Guerrero

4. Recession versus Removals: Which Finished Mexican Unauthorized Migration?
René Zenteno and Roberto Suro

5. How Is the Health of the Mexican-Origin Population on Both Sides of the Border Affected by Policies and Attitudes in the United States?
Fernando Riosmena, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Megan Reynolds, and Justin Vinneau
6. What Shall Be the Future for the Children of Migration? LASANTI and the Educational Imperative
Patricia Gándara and Gary Orfield

7. What Are the Policy Implications of Declining Unauthorized Immigration from Mexico?
Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

8. How Does Mexican Migration Affect the US Labor Market?
Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier

PART THREE. Trade Integration 
9. Before and after NAFTA: How Are Trade and Migration Policies Changing? 
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder

10. What Is the Relationship between US-Mexico Migration and Trade in Agriculture?
Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Jorge Mora-Rivera, and Yatziry Govea-Vargas

11. Is Complementarity Sustainable in the US-Mexico Automotive Sector?
Jorge Carrillo

12. What Policies Make Sense in a US-Mexico Trade Deal? 
Robert A. Blecker, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, and Isabel Salat

PART FOUR. Racial Politics
13. What Is the Historical and Political Context for Trump’s Nativist Appeal?
David Montejano

14. How Has the New Mexico-US Relationship Affected Mexican Nationalism? 
Regina Martínez Casas and Rafael Elías López Arellano

15. What Are the Social Consequences of Immigrant Scapegoating by Political Elites? 
René D. Flores

16. How Do Latinos Respond to Anti-Immigrant Politics? 
Gary Segura, Matt Barreto, and Angela E. Gutierrez

17. Anti-Immigrant Backlash: Is There a Path Forward?
Zoltan L. Hajnal

List of Acronyms
Notes
Glossary of Key Terms
References
List of Contributors 
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Looking forward, the contributors argue persuasively that strong national industrial and infrastructure policies, rather than trade accords, will speed future regional prosperity."

Foreign Affairs

This is a big book––not so much in length, but in the breadth of coverage, depth of analysis, and gravitas of its contributors. . . . a thoughtfully organized edited volume examining the paradoxes associated with Trump’s pronounced opposition to migration from, and trade with, Mexico.

Ethnic and Racial Studies