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Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
(2011)
  • Deborah Cohen
Abstract
Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship -- Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives -- Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern -- Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border -- With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border -- Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency -- Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness -- Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Citation Information
Deborah Cohen. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Chapel Hill(2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/deborahcohen/6/