AS AM 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-6: Farm Security Administration, Bracero Program, Proletariat
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Agriculture businesses desired large numbers of mexican laborers. Economic & social segregation of mexicans ensured continued euro-american control & domination. Restriction policies created mexican illegal aliens crossed border w/p formal entry & inspection. Euro-americans perceived mexicans as foreigners even though they themselves had migrated to america. Foreigness became a racialized concept that adhered to all mexicans, even those born in the us. Stripped them of the belonging they had when they were considered natives. Imported bound-labor was acceptable in a country where anglo-american free labor triumphed as the hallmark of liberal citizenship ironic. Were not covered by program benefits from the new deal like social insurance for the elderly, minimum wage, & the right to organize & bargain collectively. Excluded agricultural proletariat from the legal definition of worker . Foreign contract labor was outlawed in 1885. During civil war, americans believed that it was similar to slavery & the antithesis of free labor.
