Trump Paradox

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward TellesPART ONE. The Trump Paradox1. How Do We Explain Trump’s Paradoxical Yet Electorally Successful Use of a False US-Mexico Narrative?Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward Telles2. What Were the Paradoxical Consequences of Militarizing the Border with Mexico?Douglas S. MasseyPART TWO. Mexico-US Migration3. 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-Guerrero4. Recession versus Removals: Which Finished Mexican Unauthorized Migration?René Zenteno and Roberto Suro5. 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 Vinneau6. What Shall Be the Future for the Children of Migration? LASANTI and the Educational ImperativePatricia Gándara and Gary Orfield7. What Are the Policy Implications of Declining Unauthorized Immigration from Mexico?Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny8. How Does Mexican Migration Affect the US Labor Market?Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. BachmeierPART THREE. Trade Integration 9. Before and after NAFTA: How Are Trade and Migration Policies Changing? Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder10. What Is the Relationship between US-Mexico Migration and Trade in Agriculture?Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Jorge Mora-Rivera, and Yatziry Govea-Vargas11. Is Complementarity Sustainable in the US-Mexico Automotive Sector?Jorge Carrillo12. What Policies Make Sense in a US-Mexico Trade Deal? Robert A. Blecker, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, and Isabel SalatPART FOUR. Racial Politics13. What Is the Historical and Political Context for Trump’s Nativist Appeal?David Montejano14. How Has the New Mexico-US Relationship Affected Mexican Nationalism? Regina Martínez Casas and Rafael Elías López Arellano15. What Are the Social Consequences of Immigrant Scapegoating by Political Elites? René D. Flores16. How Do Latinos Respond to Anti-Immigrant Politics? Gary Segura, Matt Barreto, and Angela E. Gutierrez17. Anti-Immigrant Backlash: Is There a Path Forward?Zoltan L. HajnalList of AcronymsNotesGlossary of Key TermsReferencesList of Contributors Index

“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.”