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Managed migrations, growers, farmworkers, and border enforcement in the twentieth century, Cristina Salinas

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-262) and index

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Managed migrations

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Cristina Salinas

Historia USA

growers, farmworkers, and border enforcement in the twentieth century

Introduction -- "Where uncle Sam meets Mexico" : narratives of frontier and progress in early twentieth-century South Texas -- The social space of agriculture -- The flexible border : mobility within restriction in US immigration laws and enforcement -- Exploitative villains or community leaders? Agricultural labor contractors, the state, and control over worker mobility -- El Paso/the passage : the 1948 El Paso incident and the politics of mobility -- The high price of immigration politics during the 1950s -- Epilogue