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

Edition First edition Published Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Historia USA Historia USA. Contents "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 Summary "Needed 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."--EBSCO Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Immigration enforcement -- Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley -- History -- 20th century Migrant agricultural laborers -- Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley -- History -- 20th century Agricultural laborers -- Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley -- History -- 20th century Agriculture -- Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Agricultural laborers Agriculture Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Immigration enforcement Migrant agricultural laborers SUBJECT Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects Subject Texas -- Lower Rio Grande Valley Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477316160 1477316167

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