Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-262) and index.
Introduction -- "Where uncle Sam meets Mexico" : narratives of frontier and progress in early twentieth-century South Texas -- The social space of agriculture -- The flexible border : mobility within restriction in US immigration laws and enforcement -- Exploitative villains or community leaders? Agricultural labor contractors, the state, and control over worker mobility -- El Paso/the passage : the 1948 El Paso incident and the politics of mobility -- The high price of immigration politics during the 1950s -- Epilogue.
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Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.
Agricultural laborers-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
Agriculture-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
Immigration enforcement-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
Migrant agricultural laborers-- Texas-- Lower Rio Grande Valley-- History-- 20th century.
Agricultural laborers.
Agriculture.
Emigration and immigration-- Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration-- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration-- Social aspects.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Immigration enforcement.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.), Emigration and immigration, Economic aspects.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.), Emigration and immigration, Government policy.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.), Emigration and immigration, Social aspects.