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

by Deborah Cohen

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807833592

ISBN13:9780807833599

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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