ISBN:
9780520282667
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p)
Series Statement:
American Crossroads v.40
Series Statement:
American Crossroads Ser v.40
Parallel Title:
Print version Abrazando el Espíritu : Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border
DDC:
305.86872073
Keywords:
Foreign workers, Mexican -- Family relationships -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Family relationships -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Mexicans -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Families -- Mexico -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Immigrant families -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Families ; Mexico ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Foreign workers, Mexican ; Family relationships ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Immigrant families ; United States ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Mexicans ; United States ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Mexico ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
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Migrant agricultural laborers ; Family relationships ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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United States ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
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Abstract:
Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons.Drawing on an extraordinary ra
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: EMERGENCIES; 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942-1947; 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency; 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949-1959; PART TWO: LOVE AND LONGING; 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942-1964; 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957-1964; 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love; PART THREE: DECISIVE MEASURES
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias (Intermediary Women), 1958-19648. Ejemplar y sín Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942-1964; 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947-1964; Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
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