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The Politics of Asylum: Stability, Sovereignty, and Mexican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin, 1945-1959.

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Title/Author:	The Politics of Asylum: Stability, Sovereignty, and Mexican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin, 1945-1959./
Author:	Black, Ashley.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10A.
Subject:	Latin American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10931699
ISBN:	9781392062173

The Politics of Asylum: Stability, Sovereignty, and Mexican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin, 1945-1959.
Black, Ashley.

The Politics of Asylum: Stability, Sovereignty, and Mexican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin, 1945-1959. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 272 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines Mexican asylum policy between the Second World War and the Cuban Revolution, focusing on the relationship between the Mexican government and political exiles from the Caribbean Basin. While this period was one of unparalleled stability inside Mexico, outside its borders the region was in turmoil. As battles waged between the forces of dictatorship and democracy, Mexican officials maintained a position of neutrality, engaging only insofar as to provide shelter to those fleeing repression in neighboring states. The asylum-seekers who arrived on the doors of Mexico's foreign legations were more than victims, however. Many were actively working to topple the region's dictators. Asylum was not just an escape valve: it was a strategy. Exiles used asylum as a shelter to plot against their governments. Mexican officials defended the policy even as their charges violated national laws, sewed discord among the Mexican public, and threatened to make their hosts complicit in efforts to overthrow neighboring governments, thus presenting a violation of the most sacred tenet of Mexican foreign policy: non-intervention. This study addresses the question of why the Mexican government adhered to a policy that provoked conflict with neighboring states and allowed for an influx of foreign leftists at a time when the country was moving to the right. Officials claimed that the policy was purely humanitarian, designed to protect the persecuted citizens of neighboring states, but once in Mexico exiles plotted against their governments with the acquiescence of local authorities. I argue that asylum was not just a strategy for exiles; it was also a strategy for the Mexican government. By protecting revolutionaries who fought to topple neighboring dictators, Mexican officials strengthened alliances with the democratic governments of Latin America, acted as a counterweight to U.S. power in the Caribbean, and placated a domestic left that was losing faith in their own 'institutionalized' revolution. Asylum was an ideal tool of foreign policy, but it created a situation that was untenable. When Fidel Castro and his band of exiles set sail from Veracruz, the Mexican government proved unable to maintain control over forces they themselves had put in motion.

ISBN: 9781392062173Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122902
Latin American history.

The Politics of Asylum: Stability, Sovereignty, and Mexican Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin, 1945-1959.
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