Managed Migrations - Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas
• Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture
• Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement
• Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility
• Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility
• Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Cristina Salinas is an associate professor of history and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cristina Salinas
• Verlag: University Of Texas Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781477316146
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1614-6
• Seiten: 286
• Serie: Historia USA
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges