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Abrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border
Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas
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Description for Abrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border
Paperback. 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. This book uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family ... Read more
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 range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
American Crossroads
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282674
SKU
V9780520282674
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About Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Ana Elizabeth Rosas is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the departments of History and Chicano-Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for Abrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border
"This is not just another book on the bracero "guest worker" program ... Rosas fills a huge gap in the scholarship by focusing on the women and children of the families left behind ... [and] humanizes Mexican migrant male workers."
E. Hu-DeHart CHOICE "In an age when political rhetoric regularly characterizes temporary migrant laborers as direly threatening to the ... Read more
E. Hu-DeHart CHOICE "In an age when political rhetoric regularly characterizes temporary migrant laborers as direly threatening to the ... Read more