Braceros Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

Name: Braceros Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
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ISBN: 9781469609744

ISBN-10: 1469609746

ISBN-13: 9781469609744

Edition: 2013

Authors: Deborah Cohen

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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 including Mexican and U.S. state actors, labor activists, growers, and bracero migrants. Cohen argues that…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English