Between 1942 and 1964 men from different parts of Mexico left their lands and families seeking an opportunity for prosperity in the Unites States as Braceros. Their job was to work the agricultural fields of the United States while American citizens manufactured weapo... Lees meer.

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 mem... Lees meer.

The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program why it failed and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita professor of criminology law and society at UC-Irvine and author of Invitation to Law Society U. of... Lees meer.

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout... Lees meer.

Rising consumer demand for fresh fruits and vegetables has led to the employment of five million Mexican-born workers on North American farms during a typical year. The migration of Mexican workers within and from Mexico has implications for North American agriculture... Lees meer.

Otra leyenda nos acompa a desde febrero de 1939 cuando desciende confundida con los internacionalistas cubanos una madrile a envejecida a los veintisiete a os. No Oes una inmigrante m s es una enfermera que cura tantas heridas en el cuerpo y en el alma en las ciud... Lees meer.

As the first and largest guestworker program the U.S. Mexico Bracero Program 1942 1964 codified the unequal relations of labor migration between the two nations. This book interrogates the articulations of race and class in the making of the Bracero Program by introd... Lees meer.

Sweeping reforms in immigration policy over the last decade have led to heightened public awareness of this controversial issue. Inside the State takes the reader behind the scenes inside the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service INS - one of the most secretive... Lees meer.

Televisi n. ngel o demonio. el m s reciente libro de Josefa Bracero viene como soplo de aire fresco a contar una apasionada y apasionante historia que afortunadamente ya ha sido salvada para la memoria. La historia de quienes con tes n entrega oficio maestr... Lees meer.

After the United States entered World War II the U.S. government and the Mexican government formed an agreement that allowed Mexican laborers to work on farms in the Unites States for short periods of time before returning to Mexico. The U.S. growers needed someone to... Lees meer.

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Este libro que ponemos a disposici n de los lectores no refleja lamentablemente todas las im genes de los protagonistas que bien ante las c maras o detr s de ellas han hecho grande esta obra tan colectiva que es la televisi n cubana. Como homenaje a los setenta a... Lees meer.

Long before Cesar Ch vez and Chicano became commonly known the word bracero had established itself in the language of American politics. The Mexican Farm Labor Program or bracero program as it came to be known was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial... Lees meer.

La gran historia que transcurre entre la llegada del ordenador personal y la irrupci n de la inteligencia artificial. A las puertas de un mundo dominado por la inteligencia artificial y las gafas de realidad extendida cabe preguntarse d nde empez todo c mo pasamos d... Lees meer.

Argues that by delineating the need for cheap flexible farm labour as a problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is in... Lees meer.