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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Deborah, 1968-

Contributor:

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--History--20th century.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Mexicans--United States--History--20th century.

Mexicans.

Migrant labor--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Migrant labor.

Transnationalism.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Mexico.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Mexico.

Mexico--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen reveals the fashioning of a U.S.-Mexican transnational world, a world created through the interactions, negotiations, and struggles of the program's principal protagonists includin

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.

Notes:

"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908826-7-7

979-88-9313-304-2

1-4696-0339-X

0-8078-9967-4

OCLC:

700932297