No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor

by Cindy Hahamovitch

Book Overview

From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691160155
• ISBN13: 9780691160153
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"