Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

by Deborah Cohen (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

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  At the beginning of World War II, the US and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in US agricultural fields. In Braceros, Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program.