Table of Contents
Photographs
Maps
Foreword by Renato Rosaldo
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
The Historical and Geographic Background of Mobility
The Geography
The Climate
Discovery and Settlement
2
Nineteenth-Century Developments: The Socioeconomic Context of Migration
Foreign Interests and the Development of Mining
The Porfiriato: Foreign Concessions and the Mining Economy, 1870-1900
The Development of the Frontera
3
The Social, Geographic, and Temporal Basis of Network Formation
Calmalli: The Mining Circuit and Early Formulation, 1880-1910
Calexico and San Diego: La Frontera and Early Formalization, 1910-1930
San Diego-Lemon Grove: Florescence, 1930-1950
4
Calmalli: The Mining Circuit and Early Network Development, 1880-1910
Calmalli: The Geographic Nexus
The Characteristics of the Baja Network
North to CalmalH
CalmalH: The Social Nexus
North to the Frontera: A Period of Transition
5
San Diego and Calexico:
The Frontera and Early Network Formalization
Parentesco: A Regionally Based Kinship
La Frontera: A New Environment
The Border and Immigration
San Diego, 1900-1920: The Early Steamship Migrants
The Second Stream: The Twenties and Thirties
6
San Diego-Lemon Grove: Florescence, 1930-1950
Calexico to San Diego
The Frontera Towns: Geographic and Family Connections
The Processes and Mechanisms of Network Formation
7
Epilogue
8
Conclusion
Appendix:
Original Spanish Field Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
