Benjamin Montoya’s Risking Immeasurable Harm presents innovative research about the migratory policies targeting Mexican workers entering the United States during the 1920s. Montoya maintains that prior to those years, North American immigration laws did not have prohibitive specifications toward Mexican migrants, which allowed for cordial diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States. Based on a detailed historiographic review on the subject, Montoya points out that although scholars have argued that Mexican migration was not included in the restrictive quotas of 1921 and 1924 for economic reasons, their definition of immigration in purely economic terms represents a limitation. Instead, Montoya provides a more expansive definition of immigration to include racial, social, cultural, and diplomatic attributes. Therefore, his work combines the external and internal factors of both countries to better understand migration policy’s effect in the United States and Mexico.

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书评：冒着无法估量的伤害的危险。移民限制与美墨外交关系，1924-1932年

本杰明·蒙托亚（Benjamin Montoya）冒着无法估量的危害的风险提出了关于针对1920年代进入美国的墨西哥工人的移民政策的创新研究。蒙托亚坚持认为，在那些年之前，北美移民法没有针对墨西哥移民的禁止性规定，这允许墨西哥与美国之间建立亲切外交关系。根据对此主题的详细史学评论，蒙托亚指出，尽管学者们认为出于经济原因1921年和1924年墨西哥的移民不包​​括在限制性配额中，但他们对移民的定义纯粹是经济方面的限制。相反，蒙托亚提供了更为广泛的移民定义，以包括种族，社会，文化和外交属性。所以，