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

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"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. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosas, Ana Elizabeth, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:American crossroads ; 40.
Temas:
1900-1999
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 > 20th century.
Immigrant families > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains > Relations familiales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Relations familiales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Familles immigrantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Families
Mexicans > Social conditions
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Mexico
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Emergencies. Bracero recruitment in the Mexican countryside, 1942-1947 ; The Bracero Program as a permanent state of emergency ; Special immigration and the management of the Mexican family, 1949-1959
  • pt. 2. Love and longing. Government censorship of family communication, 1942-1964 ; In painful silence: the untold emotional work of long-distance romantic relationships and marriages, 1957-1964 ; Hidden from history: photo stories of love
  • pt. 3. Decisive measures. Awake houses and mujeres intermediarias (intermediary women), 1958-1964 ; Ejemplar y sín igual (exemplary and without equal): the loss of childhood, 1942-1964 ; Decididas y atrevidas (determined and daring): in search of answers, 1947-1964
  • The generative potential of thinking and acting historically.

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