Donald Coerver: Review: Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942 (original) (raw)

Booi< Reviews / intemationai and Comparative rjy lens to better understand how Mexican immigration policies affected women, their families, and their relationships with their husbands and larger Mexican families. The stories revealed in the diplomatic correspondence of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, combined with women's letters about their hardships in Asia, provide a much-needed dimension to discussions of deportation policies. Moreover, the stories recollected by these deported families' children illustrate the tragic predicament of stateless people, topics that unfortunately resonate in current US politics.