Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949–1959
Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949–1959
This chapter examines the extraordinary accountability placed on the shoulders of bracero families striving to secure a Bracero Program contract to work as “special immigrants” in the United States. Special immigrants were Mexican immigrant children, women, and men who worked tirelessly in support of management models that kept fellow braceros and their families isolated from U.S. society. Employed to maintain a social and physical distance and employment conditions and terms that would prevent braceros and their families from ever crossing paths with U.S. residents or citizens laboring in sectors that transcended agriculture, special immigrants were widely resented and often among the most alienated of immigrants in the United States and Mexico.
Keywords: special immigration, special immigrants, Mexican immigration, Bracero Program, guest worker program
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