03732nam 2200697 a 450 991079168350332120200520144314.01-4696-0339-X0-8078-9967-4(CKB)2560000000053228(EBL)655806(OCoLC)700932297(SSID)ssj0000467373(PQKBManifestationID)11286833(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467373(PQKBWorkID)10489532(PQKB)11127779(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245676(MiAaPQ)EBC655806(MiAaPQ)EBC4322017(MdBmJHUP)muse23357(Au-PeEL)EBL655806(CaPaEBR)ebr10442131(EXLCZ)99256000000005322820100722d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBraceros[electronic resource] migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico /Deborah CohenChapel Hill [N.C.] University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (359 p.)"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."1-4696-0974-6 0-8078-3359-2 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.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 includinMigrant agricultural laborersUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMexicansUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMigrant laborGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryTransnationalismUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsMexicoEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsUnited StatesForeign economic relationsMexicoMexicoForeign economic relationsUnited StatesMigrant agricultural laborersHistoryMexicansHistoryMigrant laborGovernment policyHistoryTransnationalism.331.5/44097309045Cohen Deborah1968-1125709William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791683503321Braceros3728003UNINA