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FLEXIBLE FAMILIES: BRACERO FAMILIES’ LIVES ACROSS CULTURES,
COMMUNITIES, AND COUNTRIES, 1942-1964
by
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
December 2006
Copyright 2006 Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Object Description
| Title | Flexible families: Bracero families' lives across cultures, communities, and countries, 1942-1964 |
| Author | Rosas, Ana Elizabeth |
| Author email | aerosas@gmail.com; arosas@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-06-10 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 28 Sept. 2008. |
| Date published | 2008-09-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sanchez, George J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Martinez, Maria Elena Ruiz, Vicki L. Levine, Philippa |
| Abstract | This dissertation historicizes the transnational and gendered fluidity of state manufactured conceptions of the mid-twentieth-century Mexican immigrant family and the different ways in which three generations of children, women, and men appropriated and challenged this ideal in Mexico and the United States. The Mexican and U.S. governments' demand and management of these families under the Bracero Program, is as much a transnational history of the reopening of the U.S.-Mexico border as it is about Mexican immigrant families learning to lead lives stretched across borders. Oscillating between Mexican citizens, braceros, undocumented Mexican immigrants, and U.S. permanent residents, transnational conceptualizations of the ideal Mexican immigrant worker and family generated the second largest yet most understudied wave of Mexican immigration to and from the United States. Historians of the immigrant experience have overlooked Mexican immigrant families as historical actors in the Mexican and U.S. governments' construction and management of this gendered simultaneous Mexican resident and immigrant ideal. Using archival documents and oral life histories, this dissertation is the first to link and examine the transnational roots and routes of discourses, cultural practices, and political strategies shaping this family experience in Mexico and the United States and its relationship to a longer history of Mexican immigrant ebbs and flows to and from the United States.; To illuminate the transnational and gendered complexity of this immigrant family experience, this dissertation centers on the Mexican and U.S. governments' reification of the U.S.-Mexico border through normative gendered management of an estimated 5.2 million Mexican immigrant families across borders. The Mexican and U.S. governments' commitment to immigration reform and economic progress recklessly separated and managed Mexican immigrant children, women, and men as strictly a transnational immigrant |
| Keyword | gender studies |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m52 |
| Rights | Rosas, Ana Elizabeth |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Rosas-20060928 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-Rosas-20060928.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | FLEXIBLE FAMILIES: BRACERO FAMILIES’ LIVES ACROSS CULTURES, COMMUNITIES, AND COUNTRIES, 1942-1964 by Ana Elizabeth Rosas A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) December 2006 Copyright 2006 Ana Elizabeth Rosas |
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