Colonial migrants at the heart of empire : Puerto Rican workers on U.S. farms /

"Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first comprehensive look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in mainland US agriculture in the twentieth century. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins, establishment, and development of the Puerto Rico Farm Labor Program...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: García-Colón, Ismael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Series:American crossroads ; 57.
Subjects:
Puerto Ricans > United States > Migrations.
Puerto Ricans > United States > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > United States > Social conditions.
Travailleurs migrants > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Migrant labor > Social conditions
Puerto Ricans > Migrations
Puerto Ricans > Social conditions
United States
agriculture.
american colonialism.
civil rights.
coercion.
colonialism.
commodification.
debt slavery.
ethnic studies.
ethnography.
farm labor program.
farming.
farms.
fields.
foreign others.
hispanic american studies.
hispanic.
history.
human rights.
human trafficking.
immigration.
labor camps.
labor industrial relations.
labor.
latino.
latinx.
migrant workers.
political science.
prejudice.
puerto rico.
race.
racism.
rural communities.
slave labor.
surveillance.
us territory.
workers rights.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The making of colonial migrant farmworkers
  • Establishing the Farm Labor Program
  • Implementing contract migration
  • Pa'lla afuera and the life experiences of migrants
  • Labor camps as prisons in the fields
  • Puerto Ricans in the rural United States
  • Labor organizing and the end of an era
  • Epilogue

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