Los Emigrantes Nuevomexicanos: The 1849 Repatriation to Guadalupe and San Ignacio, Chihuahua, Mexico

Authors

• Samuel E. Sisneros

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

12-2001

Abstract

MA Thesis: As a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the United States’ war with Mexico (1846-48), the inhabitants living in the territory occupied by the United States (northern half of the Mexican Republic) were left to make hard decisions as to their national identity and loyalties. Those citizens residing in the territory known today as the Southwestern United States were provided by the Republic of Mexico the opportunity to emigrate to Mexican soil in order to retain their Mexican citizenship. Beginning in 1849, more than 150 families from central and southern Texas, a small group from California, close to 4,000 people from Nuevo Mexico, along with approximately seven hundred people from the present El Paso Lower Valley (Socorro, Ysleta and San Elizario), chose to retain their Mexican citizenship and emigrate. They followed the receding and consequently redrawn border dividing Mexico and the United States and crossed over to the Republic of Mexico.

Sponsorship

University of Texas at El Paso

Keywords

US-Mexico War; Invasion Norte Americana; Diaspora; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; migration, Nuevo Mexico, Regional Chihuahua History, San Ignacio, Chihuahua; Práxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua; Guadalupe Bravos, Chihuahua; Mexico y la Frontera

Recommended Citation

Sisneros, Samuel E, "Los emigrantes nuevomexicanos: The 1849 repatriation to Guadalupe and San Ignacio, Chihuahua, Mexico" (2001). University of Texas, El Paso.