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Abrazando el espíritu : Bracero families confront the US-Mexico border / / Ana Elizabeth Rosas



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Autore: Rosas Ana Elizabeth <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Abrazando el espíritu : Bracero families confront the US-Mexico border / / Ana Elizabeth Rosas Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8/6872073
Soggetto topico: Foreign workers, Mexican - Family relationships - United States - History - 20th century
Migrant agricultural laborers - Family relationships - United States - History - 20th century
Mexicans - United States - Social conditions - 20th century
Families - Mexico - Social conditions - 20th century
Immigrant families - United States - Social conditions - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Mexico Emigration and immigration Social aspects
United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942-1947 -- 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency -- 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949-1959 -- 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942-1964 -- 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957-1964 -- 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love -- 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias (Intermediary Women), 1958-1964 -- 8. Ejemplar y sín Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942-1964 -- 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947-1964 -- Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espíritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations-creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.
Titolo autorizzato: Abrazando el espíritu  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-28267-1
0-520-95865-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458680203321
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Serie: American crossroads ; ; 40.