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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Deborah CohenPublish date:08/01/13Pages:360
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469609744ISBN-10:1469609746UPC:9781469609744Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Latin America, United States, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:Mexico, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCKQ7NPTQ9
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, Deborah Cohen asks why these 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 creatively links the often-unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show why those with connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469609744ISBN-10:1469609746UPC:9781469609744Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Latin America, United States, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:Mexico, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCKQ7NPTQ9
Deborah Cohen is associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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Deborah Cohen

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