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Author:

Salinas, Cristina, author.

Title:

Managed migrations : growers, farmworkers, and border enforcement in the twentieth century / Cristina Salinas.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Immigration enforcement--Lower Rio Grande Valley--Lower Rio Grande Valley--History--20th century.
Migrant agricultural laborers--Lower Rio Grande Valley--Lower Rio Grande Valley--History--20th century.
Agricultural laborers--Lower Rio Grande Valley--Lower Rio Grande Valley--History--20th century.
Agriculture--Lower Rio Grande Valley--Lower Rio Grande Valley--History--20th century.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.)--Government policy.--Government policy.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.)--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.)--Economic aspects.--Economic aspects.
Agricultural laborers.
Agriculture.
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Immigration enforcement.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Where uncle Sam meets Mexico" : narratives of frontier and progress in early twentieth-century South Texas -- The social space of agriculture -- The flexible border : mobility within restriction in US immigration laws and enforcement -- Exploitative villain or community leader? Agricultural labor contractors, the state, and control over worker mobility -- El Paso/the passage : the 1948 El Paso incident and the politics of mobility -- The high price of immigration politics during the 1950s -- Epilogue.

Series:

Historia USA

ISBN:

1477316159
9781477316153
1477316140
9781477316146

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1031042679

LCCN:

2018013076

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)