LEADER 03765nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910458730303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0339-X 010 $a0-8078-9967-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053228 035 $a(EBL)655806 035 $a(OCoLC)700932297 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467373 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11286833 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467373 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489532 035 $a(PQKB)11127779 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245676 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC655806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322017 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23357 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL655806 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442131 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053228 100 $a20100722d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBraceros$b[electronic resource] $emigrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico /$fDeborah Cohen 210 $aChapel Hill [N.C.] $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (359 p.) 300 $a"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." 311 $a1-4696-0974-6 311 $a0-8078-3359-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAgriculture, 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. 330 $aAt 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 includin 606 $aMigrant agricultural laborers$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMexicans$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMigrant labor$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTransnationalism 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects 607 $aUnited States$xForeign economic relations$zMexico 607 $aMexico$xForeign economic relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMigrant agricultural laborers$xHistory 615 0$aMexicans$xHistory 615 0$aMigrant labor$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aTransnationalism. 676 $a331.5/44097309045 700 $aCohen$b Deborah$f1968-$0903553 712 02$aWilliam P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458730303321 996 $aBraceros$92485572 997 $aUNINA