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Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the Us-Mexico Border Volume 40

Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the Us-Mexico Border Volume 40

Rosas, Ana Elizabeth

Hardcover

Series: American Crossroads, Book 40

AnthropologyMexican HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 0520282663
ISBN13: 9780520282667
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 26 2014
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
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 members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons.

Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espíritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations--creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.

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