About the Project
 

Maps and Timeline

Photo Galleries:
 

Mexican  Communities Abroad

The Border

Turning Points

       The picture gallery is composed of snapshots taken of the program's activities in action. They give a rich sense of the new transnational scope of one nation-state as it tries to define and present itself to people on both sides of the border.

       Through this program the Mexican government sponsors:

	6,000 soccer leagues in the United States and provides exchanges of athletes between the two countries
	250 Mexican teachers to augment bilingual education north of the border
	The presentation of Mexican culture in American schools
	Trips to reacquaint Mexican American children with their heritage
	The development of Spanish-language soap operas for broadcast on U.S. radio stations to strengthen migrants' allegiance to the country they left behind
	Rodeos

      The reasons for creating the program, along with accounts of its operation, are described in articles by its third administrator, Rodulfo Figueroa-Aramoni, and by the "bureaucrat with a weakness for social science," Carlos González Gutiérrez, who developed programs in Mexico's largest American consulate, that of Los Angeles.