SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operation Wetback, Bracero Program, Shortage

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Race physical variations in human bodies that are socially significant. Ethnicity learned culture and customs of a given community. There are also official categories administered through the office of management and. How policy can shape perceptions of race and ethnicity (1941-1964) Bracero program guest worker visas for farm laborers. Texas proviso us employers could not be held accountable. Operation wetback cold war-era nativism; deportation of 500,000 mexican nationals. From the hart-cellar act (1965) to the contract with america (1996) By the mid-1960s, us immigration policy was both pragmatic and humanitarian, selecting for skills, but also family and asylum. Since the mid-1990s, the risks of immigration have been used to legitimize vindictive public policy - border walls, immigrant incarceration, mass deportation. Defining a class of people as illegal assures they will work hard for low wages and tolerate labor conditions others would not. Massive growth of for-profit prisons since the 1990s- of us immigrant detainees are in private prisons.