Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico by Al

Description: Abandoning Their Beloved Land by Alberto García 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, Garcías book reveals how and why the federal governments delegation of Bracero Program–related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolutionary agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the programs administration and individual decisions to migrate as braceros. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "This is the definitive history of the pioneers who left Mexico and went to the United States as guest workers in the mid-twentieth century. The Bracero Program that brought them was vitally important to the development of labor in America and the modern state in Mexico. Despite that, until this book there was no in-depth, national-level study of why and how people chose to join the northward stream of essential workers. Now there is, and Alberto Garc Author Biography Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University. Table of Contents 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 Jurisdictions 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 Review "Abandoning Their Beloved Land adds a much-needed Mexican perspective on a program that encompassed thousands of lives in different political spheres and localities for over two decades." * H-Migration *"A major contribution to the literature on Chicana/o and ethnic studies, this volume will be invaluable for future research and scholarship on this critical subject." * CHOICE *"Meticulously researched, Abandoning Their Beloved Land provides an engaging narrative that makes this book accessible to non-academics, undergraduates, and graduate students alike." * Journal of Arizona History *"Garcías research adds an important new dimension to an already rich historiography of Mexican state formation and its relationship to popular peasant politics at the local level." * American Historical Review * Details ISBN0520390237 Short Title Abandoning Their Beloved Land Publisher University of California Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0520390237 ISBN-13 9780520390232 Format Paperback Subtitle The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2023-01-17 AU Release Date 2023-01-17 NZ Release Date 2023-01-17 US Release Date 2023-01-17 UK Release Date 2023-01-17 Illustrations 5 b-w illustrations, 1 table Pages 260 Author Alberto García DEWEY 331.7630972 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159402360;

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