Abandoning Their Beloved Land

The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvAlberto García

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Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Program–related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-17
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520390232

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Migration inom Samhälle och politik

ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Introduction 1 • “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures”: Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program2 • “According to the Jurisdiction’s Necessities”: State-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 3 • “Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences”: Political-Religious Conflicts and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 4 • “Lack of Work and Lands to Sow”: The Agrarian Reform and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío5 • A “Mockery of Responsibility”: Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero ProgramConclusion Notes Bibliography Index