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

Author/creator Cohen, Deborah, 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Description328 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
General note"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-304) and index.
LCCN 2010029264
ISBN9780807833599 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807833592 (cloth : alk. paper)

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