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

by Deborah Cohen

Book Overview

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, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary 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 reveals the fashioning of a U.S.-Mexican...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469609746
• ISBN13: 9781469609744
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"