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Ngai discusses the national boundaries of class using these two countries as examples.
What are the United States and Mexico?
Rodriguez discusses the experiences of workers from this country in the United States.
What is the Philippines?
This term is used to describe migrant workers who are considered “illegal” aliens and do not have legal migration documents.
What is undocumented?
As a country with no land borders, workers from the Philippines can only leave the country by these two methods of transportation.
What are planes and ships?
This program oversaw the importation of Mexican workers to the United States in the mid-twentieth century.
What is the Bracero Program?
Filipino workers are required to obtain this immigration document to work legally in the US.
What is a visa?
Workers are viewed as a more sought-after commodity worldwide, especially in the United States, if they can speak this language.
What is English?
This government document is sought after by Mexican Agricultural workers so that they may legally live and work in the United States.
What is a passport/citizenship?
This southern US state that borders Mexico enforced a system of segregation that isolated Mexican migrant workers into segregated colonías.
What is Texas?
Nations and states that have developing economies and are excluded from the ‘First World’ are referred to by this term.
What is Third World?
The development of this type of wage was thought to counter the increased generation of illegal immigrants following the introduction of the Bracero Program.
What are “Wetback” wages?
Mexican workers provided sufficient labour power to support this revolution in the United States after World War I.
What is the agricultural revolution?