Across the Border and Back Again

"Across the Border and Back Again: the History of Emigration and Return Migration in Jalisco, Mexico," is the title of a presentation by Michael Snodgrass (right), associate professor of history, Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. The free program, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Friday (14 September) in Cavanaugh Hall 508, Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, 425 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, is part of the IUPUI 2007-2008 Sabbatical Speaker Series.

The western state of Jalisco is the birthplace of such quintessential and iconic Mexican traditions as mariachi music, tequila, and rodeo cowboys (charros). It also one of the greatest producers of a more controversial and consequential phenomenon: emigrants to the United States. Indeed, since the first great wave of emigrants left in the l920s, Jalisco and its neighboring states in central-western Mexico have sent the majority of migrants north. Learn more about the historical roots of emigration and its contemporary consequences for rural and urban Jalisco.