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From Peasant to Worker: Migration, Masculinity, and the Making of Mexican Workers in the US
International Labor and Working-class History (2006)
  • Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Abstract
This article examines Mexican migration to the US during the Bracero Program, the unofficial name for the series of US-Mexico agreements that brought Mexican men to work in US agricultural fields from 1942 to 1964. Juxtaposing Mexican and US states' goals for the Program to migrants' understandings of their journeys, the article shows how this migration disrupted men's subjectivities, even as it simultaneously provided the mechanisms to resecure gender and class subjectivities and claims in crucial way. Revealed, ultimately, is what was forged in the wake of this migration: a new kind of historical actor, transnationally gendered and classed.
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Publication Date
March 1, 2006
DOI
10.1017/S0147547906000056
Citation Information
Deborah Cohen. "From Peasant to Worker: Migration, Masculinity, and the Making of Mexican Workers in the US" International Labor and Working-class History Vol. 69 Iss. 1 (2006) p. 81 - 103
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/deborahcohen/2/