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Colonial migrants at the heart of empire : Puerto Rican workers on U.S. farms / Ismael García-Colón.
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García-Colón, Ismael
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
©2020
Description
xvii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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E184.P85 G37 2020
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Puerto Ricans
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United States
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Migrations
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Puerto Ricans
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United States
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Social conditions
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Migrant labor
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United States
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Series
American crossroads ; 57.
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American crossroads ; 57
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Summary note
"Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first comprehensive look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in mainland US agriculture in the twentieth century. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins, establishment, and development of the Puerto Rico Farm Labor Program by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, which placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on US farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Colonial Migrants is both a labor history and an ethnography of the experience of migrant farm workers in US rural communities, evoking the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that Puerto Ricans encountered on farms. One of the first books to explore the particular prejudice and racism faced by island farmworkers as they interacted with US rural communities, it reveals the dual status of Puerto Ricans as both US citizens and racialized "foreign others." Despite the complexities of navigating this dual status, many workers ultimately stayed in these communities and contributed to the demographic and ethnic changes of rural America"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-284) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The making of colonial migrant farmworkers
Preparing the ground : establishing the Farm Labor Program
Implementing contract migration
Pa'lla afuera : life experiences of migrants
Prisons in the fields : encounters with labor camps
Puerto Ricans in the rural United States
Labor organizing and the end of an era
Epilogue.
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ISBN
9780520325784 ((cloth))
0520325788
9780520325791 ((paperback))
0520325796
LCCN
2019040635
OCLC
1120689965
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