Book ID: CBB283180505

Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century (2018)

unapi

Salinas, Cristina (Author)


University of Texas Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 286
Language: English

Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019Needed 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.Managed Migrations examines the relationship between immigration laws and policy and the agricultural labor relations of growers and workers in South Texas and El Paso during the 1940s and 1950s. Cristina Salinas argues that immigration law was mainly enacted not in embassies or the halls of Congress but on the ground, as a result of daily decisions by the Border Patrol that growers and workers negotiated and contested. She describes how the INS devised techniques to facilitate high-volume yearly deportations and shows how the agency used these enforcement practices to manage the seasonal agricultural labor migration across the border. Her pioneering research reveals the great extent to which immigration policy was made at the local level, as well as the agency of Mexican farmworkers who managed to maintain their mobility and kinship networks despite the constraints of grower paternalism and enforcement actions by the Border Patrol.

...More
Reviewed By

Review María Esther Hammack (2019) Review of "Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century". Agricultural History (pp. 774-776). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB283180505/

Similar Citations

Book Mario Jimenez Sifuentez; (2016)
Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest (/isis/citation/CBB044049827/)

Book Timothy P. Bowman; (2016)
Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands (/isis/citation/CBB319505005/)

Book Ann Folino White; (2014)
Plowed Under: Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America (/isis/citation/CBB624497168/)

Book Whayne, Jeannie M.; (2011)
Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (/isis/citation/CBB001200642/)

Book Susanna Rankin Bohme; (2014)
Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle (/isis/citation/CBB523154484/)

Book Michael J. Lansing; (2015)
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics (/isis/citation/CBB453507115/)

Book Brenda J. Child; (2014)
My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation (/isis/citation/CBB859319545/)

Book John Hultgren; (2015)
Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America (/isis/citation/CBB284865891/)

Article Craig Heinicke; (1994)
African-American Migration and Urban Labor Skills: 1950 and 1960 (/isis/citation/CBB376698357/)

Chapter Rios, Victor, Jr.; (2005)
The Legacy of Julian Samora: Development of Theory for the Study of Undocumented Immigration (/isis/citation/CBB000931122/)

Book Garcilazo, Jeffrey Marcos; (2012)
Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870--1930 (/isis/citation/CBB001550267/)

Book Robert F. Alegre; (2013)
Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class, and Memory (/isis/citation/CBB109794044/)

Book Tore C. Olsson; (2017)
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside (/isis/citation/CBB691965950/)

Authors & Contributors
Lansing, Michael J.
Bowman, Timothy P.
Ann Folino White
Brenda J. Child
Hultgren, John
Vargas, Zaragosa
Concepts
Labor and laborers
Agriculture
Emigration; immigration
Borderlands
Economics
Farmers
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Mexico
Western states (U.S.)
California (U.S.)
Arkansas (U.S.)
Detroit (Michigan)
Institutions
Tennessee Valley Authority
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment