Abandoning Their Beloved Land : The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García, Alberto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seasonal Farm Laborers Program.

Agricultural laborers--Political aspects--Mexico--20th century.

Agricultural laborers.

Agricultural laborers--Mexico--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Abandoning Their Beloved Land

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Program-related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

One “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures” federal-level administration of the bracero program

Two “According to the Jurisdiction’s Necessities” state-level administration of the bracero program

Three “Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences” Political-religious conflicts and bracero migration in the greater Bajío

Four “Lack of Work and Lands to Sow” The agrarian reform and bracero migration in the greater Bajío

Five. A “Mockery of Responsibility” municipal-level administration of the bracero program

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520390249

0520390245

OCLC:

1344006312