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Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century

Salinas, Cristina

Paperback

Series: Historia USA

20th Century United States HistoryImmigration & RefugeesLatino Studies

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ISBN10: 1477316159
ISBN13: 9781477316153
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

2020 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Book Award Winner
Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019

Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.

Needed at one moment, scorned at others, Mexican agricultural workers have moved back and forth across the US-Mexico border for the past century. In South Texas, Anglo growers' dreams of creating a modern agricultural empire depended on continuous access to Mexican workers. While this access was officially regulated by immigration laws and policy promulgated in Washington, DC, in practice the migration of Mexican labor involved daily, on-the-ground negotiations among growers, workers, and the US Border Patrol. In a very real sense, these groups set the parameters of border enforcement policy.

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