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• 1 2021-04-19T17:25:29+00:00 About This Project 1 plain 2021-04-19T17:25:29+00:00 The Mexican Hometown Associations Oral History Project was led by Xóchitl Bada, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Her areas of specialization include migrant access to political and social rights, migrant organizing strategies, violence and displacement, and transnational labor advocacy mobilization in Mexico and the United. She is co-editor of the books New Migration Patterns in the Americas: Challenges for the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2018), Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (The University of Texas Press, 2019), and the Oxford Handbook of Sociology of Latin America, forthcoming in 2020.
  
  Professor Bada was assisted by Enrique Alvear, who earned an MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a PhD student in Sociology at the university.  His experiences under the Chilean military dictatorship and his work counseling imprisoned immigrants in Chile led him to pursue a degree in sociology.  He is currently working on the intersection between the state, crime, and penal institutions, including research on immigration regimes, gang control, and mass incarceration in the Americas.
  
  Professor Bada and Enrique Alvear conducted lengthy oral interviews of 23 leaders of Mexican Hometown Associations in the Chicago region during 2016.  These interviews were then organized, transcribed, and donated to the Newberry Library.  Their stories serve as a resource for students and the general public seeking to understand the complicated stories of migrants to Chicago who came together to build organizations that have mobilized social reforms in both Chicago and Mexico.  Their transnational activism, bridging public and private spheres, has developed new models of community activism in the twenty-first century.
  
  On September 22, 2018, the Newberry Library held a public program to dedicate the archive of oral histories, to reflect on their meaning, and to hear the stories of two Hometown Association leaders.  Professor Bada, Professor Andrew Sansoval-Strausz from Penn State University, Claudio Locero, and Frank de Avila spoke at the event.  For more, please see a description of the program and an audio recording of the program.
  

  List of Chicago-Area Mexican Hometown Associations in this Project

  The Mexican Hometown Association Oral History Project contains the stories of 23 individuals who are associated with the following Chicago-area Mexican Hometown Associations:
  
  Asociación de Clubes y Organizaciones Potosinas de Illinois (ACOPIL)
  Casa Club Yuriria, Guanajuato
  Casa Guanajuato
  Club Amealco, Guerrero
  Club Arroyo Seco de Arriba, Zacatecas
  Club Atolinga, Zacatecas
  Club Cerritos
  Club Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán
  Club Degollado
  Club El Parral
  Club El Potrero, Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc, Guerrero
  Club Francisco Villa
  Club La Purísima, Michoacán
  Club Maxichú
  Club Purísima de Rincón, Guanajuato
  Club Santiaguero del Río Abajo, Durango
  Club Social Potosino
  Club Taji, Michoacán
  Clubes Unidos Guerrerenses del Medio Oeste
  Confederación de Federaciones Mexicanas (CONFEMEX)
  Durango Unido en Chicago
  Federación de Clubes Zacatecanos de Illinois (FECUZI)
  Sociedad Cívica Mexicana
  Sociedad Cívica Potosina
   

  Further Resources

  Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement by Xóchitl Bada (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Also available at the Newberry Library: view catalog record
  
  Mexican Hometown Associations by filmmaker Alex Rivera. A 23-minute documentary first aired on PBS in 2003
  
  
  Note: The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductions