Familia : migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975

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