Return of the Wetback.

Portes, Alejandro

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ERIC Number: EJ097188

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1974

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Return of the Wetback

Portes, Alejandro

Society, 11, 3, 40-49, Mar/Apr 74

Examines the wetback migration, and legal migration from Mexico which have had a vigorous resurgence in the years following the termination of the bracero program in 1964: the migrants, their methods and the making of the structural forces promoting and sustaining this migration do not conform to commonly held beliefs. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Immigrants, Immigration Inspectors, Law Enforcement, Mexican Americans, Migrant Problems, Migrants, Migration, Migration Patterns, Sociology

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