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Managed migrations : growers, farmworkers, and border enforcement in the twentieth century /
"Needed at one moment, scorned at others, Mexican agricultural workers have moved back and forth across the US-Mexico border for the past century. In South Texas, Anglo growers'dreams of creating a modern agricultural empire depended on continuous access to Mexican workers. While this acce...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Historia USA.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico": Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas
- The Social Space of Agriculture
- The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement
- Exploitative Villains or Community Leaders? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility
- El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility
- The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s.