Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on the construction of the Mexican immigrant community in Los Angeles, stressing the particularities of this process in the Zacatecan, Oaxacan, and Veracruzan communities. One out of every ten people born in Mexico resides in the United States temporarily or permanently, and the majority are in the country without documents, which means they face the daily fear of being deported. The rest are naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, persons granted political asylum, or persons whose temporary stay is authorized by particular types of visas—such as those for students, professionals, or agricultural workers reprising the work done by their grandparents under the Bracero Program. The undocumented population grew rapidly in the opening years of the 2000s, then slowed in 2005–2008. This decline in the rate of undocumented immigration stemmed mainly from the impact of the global economic recession that began in the United States in 2008.
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