| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
American crossroads ; 57
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American crossroads ; 57.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The making of colonial migrant farmworkers -- Establishing the Farm Labor Program -- Implementing contract migration -- Pa'lla afuera and the life experiences of migrants -- Labor camps as prisons in the fields -- Puerto Ricans in the rural United States -- Labor organizing and the end of an era -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Migrations.
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Puerto Ricans. |
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United States. |
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Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Migrant labor -- United States -- Social conditions.
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e-books. |
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Migrant labor. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- General. |
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Electronic books. |
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Migrant labor -- Social conditions. |
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Puerto Ricans -- Migrations. |
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Puerto Ricans -- Social conditions. |
| Other Form: |
Print version García-Colón, Ismael Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520325784 (DLC) 2019040635 |
| ISBN |
9780520974272 electronic book |
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0520974271 electronic book |
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9780520325784 hardcover |
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0520325788 hardcover |
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9780520325791 paperback |
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0520325796 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520974272 |
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