Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
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 Braccros, 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 from participating in the program. These concerns and expectations, she suggests, provide a way to look at nation-state formation as a transnational process. 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 including Mexican and U.S. state actors. labor activists, growers, and bracero migrants. Cohen argues that braceros became racialized foreigners, Mexican citizens, workers, and transnational subjects as they moved between U.S. and Mexican national spaces.
328 pages, 6 editions
English edition · First published 2011 by University of North Carolina Press · ISBN 9780807833599
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6 editions
English
- Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico · University of North Carolina Press · 2011 · ISBN 9780807833599 This page
- Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico · University of North Carolina Press · 2011 · ISBN 9781469603391
- Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico · University of North Carolina Press · 2011 · ISBN 9798890882677
- Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico · University of North Carolina Press · 2011 · ISBN 9798893133042
- Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico · University of North Carolina Press · 2011 · ISBN 9780807899670
- Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico · The University of North Carolina Press · 2011 · ISBN 9781469609744
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