Dangerous Migration by Eladio B Bobadilla
In the post-WWII years, many Mexican Americans viewed undocumented immigration as a threat to their communities. Yet the interplay among Mexican migrants, Mexican Americans, and white Americans eventually produced a vibrant immigrant-oriented activist movement inspired by larger struggles for civil and human rights.Beginning with Mexican American opposition to the Bracero Program, Eladio Bobadilla traces the movement's fault lines that formed around the issue of undocumented workers. Bobadilla reveals how internationalist and human rights discourse influenced the rise of the Chicano movement and its defense of Mexican undocumented immigrants. As time passed, anti-Mexican social, political, and legislative forces produced a nativist backlash that put immigration at the center of the United States' culture wars and created the fantasy of undocumented workers as an existential threat.
Engaging and vivid, Dangerous Migration illuminates the history of debates over Mexican labor, the emergence of the immigrant rights activism, and the nativist movements that united Latinos with right-wing white Americans.
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight
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NAFTA and Labor in North America
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Lives of Their Own
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Immigrants Against the State
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Fighting for Total Person Unionism
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Death to Fascism
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Workers on the Waterfront
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Hillbilly Hellraisers
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Disconnected
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Backroom Bargaining
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A Power Among Them
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The Way We Build
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Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism
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Man of Fire
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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South
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Public Workers in Service of America
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Downriver Detroit
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Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland
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Shadow of the Racketeer
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Labor's Cold War
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Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
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Making Capitalism Safe
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The Great Strikes of 1877
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Waterfront Workers
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Against Labor
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After the Strike
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Diamond and Juba
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Smokestacks in the Hills
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All That Glitters
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Labor Histories
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Frontiers of Labor
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GENERATION of BOOMERS
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Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union
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The Pandemic and the Working Class
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We Always Had a Union
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A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity
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Para Power
Eladio Bobadilla is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780252089220 |
| Title | Dangerous Migration |
| Author | Eladio B Bobadilla |
| Series | Working Class In American History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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