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Migrant Citizenship : Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program /

Migrant Citizenship examines the Farm Security Administration's Migratory Labor Camp Program and its impact on diverse farmworker families across the United States. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda reveals how these camps operated beyond their economic function, helping migrants secure their full po...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Martínez-Matsuda, Verónica (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Securing (Re)productive Labor: State Intervention in Migrant Housing and Farmworkers' Rights
  • Chapter 2. Planning Migrant Communities: The Camps' Built Environment and the Formation of a New Socioeconomic Order
  • Chapter 3. Traversing the Boundaries of Camp Life: Migrants' Community Within and Beyond the Federal Camps
  • Chapter 4. "A Chance to Live": The Fight for Migrant Health and Medical Reform Under the Farm Security Administration
  • Chapter 5. The Contested Meaning of Migrant Citizenship: Farmworkers' Education, Politicization, and Civil Rights Claims
  • Chapter 6. The Demise of the Camp Program: Industrial Farming and the Embattled Welfare State
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index.