Braceros

Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

Deborah Cohen

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781469609744, 9780807833599
• eBook ISBN: 9780807899670
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen creatively links the often-unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show why those with connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• BRACEROS
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Part I Producing Transnational Subjects
• Part II Bracero Agency and Emergent Subjectivities
• Part III The Convergence of Elite Alliances
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos
• Index