Braceros : migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico

Braceros : migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico /

At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In "Braceros", historian Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and an...

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Main Author: Cohen, Deborah (Historian) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Migrant agricultural laborers > United States > History > 20th century.
Mexicans > United States > History > 20th century.
Migrant labor > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Transnationalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
International economic relations
Mexicans
Migrant agricultural laborers
Migrant labor > Government policy
Transnationalism
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Foreign economic relations > United States.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Mexico
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship
  • Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives
  • Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern
  • Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border
  • With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border
  • Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency
  • Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness
  • Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency.

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