Mexican and Mexican American Migrant Farm Workers in the United States
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 28
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Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813520483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarlier in this century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the United States, attracted by the prospect of work in California's fields. The Mexican farmworkers were tolerated by Americans as long as there was enough work to go around. During the Great Depression, though, white Americans demanded that Mexican workers and their families return to Mexico. In the 1930s, the federal government and county relief agencies forced the repatriation of half a million Mexicans--and some Mexican Americans as well. Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the repatriation program--one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government. She exposes the powers arrayed against Mexicans as well as the patterns of Mexican resistance, and she maps out constructions of national and ethnic identity across the contested terrain of the American Dream.
Author: Martin Howard Sable
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780866565424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen Rowan
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George C. Kiser
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph comprising a collection of readings on issues related to Mexican migrant worker flows (including irregular migrants) to the USA - presents historical and political aspects of foreign worker employment, and discusses forced return migration of Mexican nationals during the 1930's, the impact of legal border commuting frontier workers as well as Mexico's reaction to USA migration policy measures against illegal Mexican workers, etc. Bibliography pp. 285 to 289, references and statistical tables.
Author: Anthony P. Dunbar
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Farm Placement Service
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lori A. Flores
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0300216386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnown as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Author: Christopher Hovius
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses America's migrant farmworkers, the realities they live, the struggles they face, as well as the history of American agriculture, how farmworkers have fought for greater rights, and how Latinos are influencing American economics, politics, and culture today.
Author: Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 157441464X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.