Braceros migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico /

Main Author: Cohen, Deborah, 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10442131
Table of Contents:
  • 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.