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Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? - Mexican Labor Migration to the United States (Paperback)
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Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? - Mexican Labor Migration to the United States (Paperback)
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Scholars and journalists have looked mostly to Mexico's own economy
and society for the chief causes of Mexican migration to the United
States. This book presents a strikingly contrasting explanation and
offers a persuasive historical re-examination of the history of
relations between the two countries. Gilbert Gonzalez dispels the
myth that Mexican migration conforms to the pattern of earlier
European migrations. Mexican migration, he shows, is the social
consequence of U.S. economic domination over Mexico. Since the late
nineteenth century, powerful U.S. capitalist enterprises have
controlled important sectors of the Mexican economy, a dominance
that uprooted peasants and small farmers from traditional farming
villages. Those uprooted turned to internal migration and then
proceeded into the U.S. to be integrated into the largest
capitalist corporations in the world. The mass migration has had a
number of implications, from indentured labor to legal and illegal
labor. Gonzalez's book examines recent Bush initiatives, NAFTA
measures, and the history of antecedent bracero programs supported
by the U.S. government and business to show how colonial
explanations of migration better fit historical patterns.
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