Abrazando el espi?ritu [electronic resource] : Bracero families confront the US-Mexico border

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서명/저자사항	Abrazando el espi?ritu [electronic resource]: Bracero families confront the US-Mexico border / Ana Elizabeth Rosas.
개인저자	Rosas, Ana Elizabeth, 1978-.
발행사항	Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, [2014].
형태사항	1 online resource.
총서사항	American crossroads ;40
ISBN	9780520958654 (electronic bk.) 0520958659 (electronic bk.) 1322071357 (ebk) 9781322071350 (ebk)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: EMERGENCIES; 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942-1947; 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency; 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949-1959; PART TWO: LOVE AND LONGING; 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942-1964; 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957-1964; 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love; PART THREE: DECISIVE MEASURES 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias (Intermediary Women), 1958-19648. Ejemplar y si?n Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942-1964; 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947-1964; Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
요약	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 ra.
주제명(지명)	United States --Emigration and immigration --Social aspects.
일반주제명	Foreign workers, Mexican --Family relationships --United States --History --20th century. Migrant agricultural laborers --Family relationships --United States --History --20th century. Mexicans --United States --Social conditions --20th century. Families --Mexico --20th century. Immigrant families --United States --Social conditions --20th century.
분류기호(DDC)	305.8
언어	영어
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