Description: Abrazando el EspirituBracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border Author(s): Ana Elizabeth Rosas Format: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520282674, 978-0520282674 Synopsis Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espiritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.
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Book Title: Abrazando el Espiritu
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Publication Name: Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the Us-Mexico Border
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Social Sciences, Transportation, History
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 408g
Number of Pages: 298 Pages
