Braceros [electronic resource] : migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico / Deborah Cohen.
Publication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.Description: 328 p., [20] p. of plates : illSubject(s):- Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mexicans -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Migrant labor -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 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
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- HD1525 .C62 2011eb
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"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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