Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State. By Christian Joppke. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005



Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. By Mae Ngai. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004



Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America. By Daniel Tichenor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Mexican labor in the United States

Strangeness at the Gates: The Peculiar Politics of American Immigration

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El estudio de la zona fronteriza México-Estados Unidos

OF DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Northeastern University, April 2011

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Crime in the new destinations: the effect of changing patterns of immigrant settlement on traditional and biased crime.

more spectacular conflicts in California's fields, the 1928 strike was a purely local affair, staged by Imperial Valley workers with little or no aid from outside organizations. It was broken easily, in part because of organizational weaknesses, but primarily through threats and force by the valley's growers and law enforcement officials. Nevertheless, the strike stands as an important event in California history. It was the first attempt at a major work-stoppage organized by Mexican farm workers in modern California. It is important to note that this attempt occurred nearly forty years before the current struggle in Delano and nearly fifteen years before the beginning of the formal bracero program. The strike of the Imperial cantaloupe workers in 1928 is part of a long and sometimes bitter heritage of conflict between Mexican agricultural workers and their employers in rural California.1 The basic economic and social conditions that caused the Imperial Valley strike already were well established in 1928, and the Delano Huelga indicates that these conditions still exist in California's fields.

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Huelga, 1928 Style: The Imperial Valley Cantaloupe Workers' Strike

Ethnographers’ long-standing interest in migration has taken on new significance as researchers grapple with ‘globalization’ on the ground. Drawing on the insights of the transnationalism literature while rejecting its ahistorical tendencie s, I explore how recent appeals to use local archival work and revisits to achieve historical depth can be applied fruitfully to ethnographies of migration. I argue for multi- sited fieldwork in countries of origin and destination and the removal of nationa l blinders so that both domestic and international migrations are brought into the same frame for comparison. Finally, I amend the extended case method by arguing for the engagement of case studies with research programs in several ways that attend to the representativeness of the case. The utility of these strategies is demonstrated with examples from the migration literature and five years of ethnographic fieldwork among Mexican migrants.

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Mexican labor in the United States

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Strangeness at the Gates: The Peculiar Politics of American Immigration

El estudio de la zona fronteriza México-Estados Unidos

Crime in the new destinations: the effect of changing patterns of immigrant settlement on traditional and biased crime.

Huelga, 1928 Style: The Imperial Valley Cantaloupe Workers' Strike

Ethnographies of Migration

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