Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I.N.S.

By Kitty Calavita
Published by Quid Pro Books
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Published: July 12, 2010
Words: 99,201 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781610270014

Description

A socio-political study of the rise and fall of the Bracero worker program and what it means for immigration policy and organizational theory. A classic book with continuing substantive and methodological value. As a new Foreword notes, worries about immigration and labor persist, as does basic dysfunction of the present form of INS. Digging deeper reveals the persistence of a structural catch-22.

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texas, farm, california, mexico, law, union, sociology, immigration, labor, agriculture, bureaucracy, hispanics, grapes, chavez, ins, agencies, cotton, lettuce, organizational theory, social theory, farm labor

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