Cristina Salinas

Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.

Produktdetails

• Historia USA
• Verlag: UNIV OF TEXAS PR
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781477316146
• ISBN-10: 1477316140
• Artikelnr.: 52425356

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas
Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture
Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement
Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility
Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility
Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index