Braceros
Subtitle: migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico
By: Deborah Cohen
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780807833599
Subjects: Government policy; Social aspects; Mexicans; Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism; Foreign economic relations; Migrant labor; Migrant agricultural laborers; History
Notes: "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship; title: Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives; title: Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern; title: Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border; title: With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border; title: Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency; title: Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness; title: Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency.