"Repatriating" Mexican Americans in the 1930s

FAIN: MT-290217-23

Independent Arts and Media (San Francisco, CA 94142-0442)
Katy Long (Project Director: June 2022 to January 2026)

Prototyping a mobile app that combines an audio walking tour with augmented reality to interpret the Mexican American experience in 1930s Los Angeles.

“Repatriating” Mexican Americans in the 1930s will tell the story of how between 1929 and 1939, approximately one million people of Mexican descent (an estimated 60% of them American citizens) were forcibly “repatriated” across the US-Mexico border. Set in Los Angeles, our prototype tour will demonstrate how a wide public audience can engage with accessible digital technology to explore an often overlooked history whilst also engaging with humanities themes that remain highly salient today: the politics of exclusion, “American” identity, the ethics of border control, and the often-precarious nature of immigrants’ citizenship.

Associated Products

Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s
Writer: Katy Long
Director: Katy Long
Producer: Cathy Edwards and Gabby Santas
Abstract: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá is a new immersive audio walk created by the California Migration Museum. The self-guided tour invites you to uncover the hidden histories of Olvera Street, the La Placita Raid and more than a million Mexican Americans who were coerced into leaving Los Angeles in the 1930s. The tour is a free, self-guided audio and augmented reality experience available to download through the CalMigration App. The tour is 60 minutes, and is best experienced in-person as a walking tour that begins at La Placita Olvera, located at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument in downtown Los Angeles. Along with the immersive audio walk, the tour is also available as an interactive 360° video that deepens access for educators and historians and allows you to participate in the experience from anywhere. DOWNLOAD THE APP & LEARN MORE: calmigration.org/dtla EXPLORE the 360° video Experience: calmigration.org/dtla#video READ the Press Release TAG US @CalMigration
Date: 6/1/23
Primary URL: http://https://www.calmigration.org/migrantfootsteps
Primary URL Description: Migrant Footsteps is a series of free, immersive audio walks developed by the California Migration Museum. Each tour combines music, oral history, archival research and augmented reality to take you on a multi-sensory walk through five California neighborhoods in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Tours are free to download in the CalMigration App, and take approximately one hour to complete. To get started, check out the tours and locations below, download the CalMigration app, and get ready to explore. Can’t make it in-person? Explore our new 360 video experiences from anywhere in the world. Select a tour below for more.
Secondary URL: https://www.calmigration.org/dtla
Secondary URL Description: Sometimes the history we choose to remember hides a history we’re supposed to forget. Take a walk through La Placita and down bustling Olvera Street, “a Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today,” and uncover the story of millions of Mexican Americans who were coerced into leaving Los Angeles in the 1930s and how this still resonates today.
Access Model: open access and free to download
Format: Other

Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s
Writer: Katy Long
Director: Katy Long
Producer: Cathy Edwards, Sam Rochelle and Gabby Santas
Abstract: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá is a new immersive audio walk created by the California Migration Museum. The self-guided tour invites you to uncover the hidden histories of Olvera Street, the La Placita Raid and more than a million Mexican Americans who were coerced into leaving Los Angeles in the 1930s. The tour is a free, self-guided audio and augmented reality experience available to download through the CalMigration App. The tour is 60 minutes, and is best experienced in-person as a walking tour that begins at La Placita Olvera, located at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument in downtown Los Angeles. Along with the immersive audio walk, the tour is also available as an interactive 360° video that deepens access for educators and historians and allows you to participate in the experience from anywhere.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: http://www.calmigration.org/dtla#video
Primary URL Description: Explore bustling Olvera Street virtually with us! Visually immersive archival scenes, animated captions and soundscapes help tell the the stories of Mexican American Los Angeles and the repatriations of the 1930s.
Secondary URL: https://www.calmigration.org/dtla
Secondary URL Description: Sometimes the history we choose to remember hides a history we’re supposed to forget. Take a walk through La Placita and down bustling Olvera Street, “a Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today,” and uncover the story of millions of Mexican Americans who were coerced into leaving Los Angeles in the 1930s and how this still resonates today.
Access Model: Free - open access
Format: Web

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