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No man's land : Jamaican guestworkers in America and the global history of deportable labor /
From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign worke...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and they had few rights. Indeed, instead of creating a manageable form of migration, guestworker programs created an especially vulnerable class of labor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400840021 1400840023 9780691160153 0691160155 |