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 transnational world, a world created through the
interactions, negotiations, and struggles of the program's
principal protagonists including Mexican and U.S. state actors,
labor activists, growers, and bracero migrants. Cohen argues that
braceros became racialized foreigners, Mexican citizens, workers,
and transnational subjects as they moved between U.S. and Mexican
national spaces. Drawing on oral histories, ethnographic fieldwork,
and documentary evidence, Cohen creatively links the often
unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of
consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show
why those with connections beyond the nation have historically
provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies.
|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
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 creatively links the often unconnected themes
of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and
gendered class and race formation to show why those with
connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion,
anxiety, and retaliatory political policies.
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