Abandoning Their Beloved Land

The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39023-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garcia, Alberto

García, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

1 • “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures”: Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program
2 • “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 Bajío
5 • A “Mockery of Responsibility”: Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University.