HIUS 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bracero Program, World Bank, Stagflation
Document Summary
Globalization and the rise of the neloliberal economic order: concentration of wealth dispersed over 1917-2012. White workers slowly replaced by nonwhite workers. Bracero screenings in mexican interior, screening process of mexican workers for the opportunity to get through the border to get work in the us: credential checks fumigations for lice and diseases. Possible of proposal of bracero program again for current immigrant labor. 1924 immigration act and border control: 4,000 apprehensions of undocumented immigrants, apprehensions increased through the 1930s. Mexican population growth: 1900s, stayed at 10 million until 1940s increased to almost 100 million in 2000s. Physical features of mexico: most arid desert at the border of southern arizona/texas. Twin cities phenomenon: doubling/tripling/quadrupling of the population along the us/mexican border, outsourcing/offshoring. Putting goods and services in a different location for cheaper labor. Labor regulations for mexicans were much looser, so easier to get away with things as corporations.
