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850760
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Salinas, Cristina
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| Title & Author
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Managed migrations : : growers, farmworkers, and border enforcement in the twentieth century /\ Cristina Salinas.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Austin, TX :: University of Texas Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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| Series Statement
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Historia USA
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| Page. NO
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xii, 272 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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1477316140
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: 1477316159
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: 9781477316146
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: 9781477316153
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9781477316160
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9781477316177
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-262) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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| Subject
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Agricultural laborers-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
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Agriculture-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
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Immigration enforcement-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
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Migrant agricultural laborers-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
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Agricultural laborers.
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Agriculture.
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Emigration and immigration-- Economic aspects.
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Emigration and immigration-- Government policy.
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Emigration and immigration-- Social aspects.
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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Immigration enforcement.
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Migrant agricultural laborers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
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Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.), Emigration and immigration, Economic aspects.
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Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.), Emigration and immigration, Government policy.
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Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.), Emigration and immigration, Social aspects.
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Texas, Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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| Dewey Classification
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325/.764409044
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| LC Classification
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HD1527.T4S35 2018
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