Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- The making of colonial migrant farmworkers -- Preparing the ground : establishing the Farm Labor Program -- Implementing contract migration -- Pa'lla afuera : life experiences of migrants -- Prisons in the fields : encounters with labor camps -- Puerto Ricans in the rural United States -- Labor organizing and the end of an era -- Epilogue.

On being landless : the expansion of agrarian capitalism and the crisis of the 1930s -- Land distribution and the rise of a new party politics -- Government planning and the policies of land resettlement -- Close encounters of colonialism : state formation in the Parcelas -- Community formation and livelihood -- Aftermath : Parcelas, a showcase for democracy and development

A land distribution program in the community of Parcelas Gándaras in Cidra, Puerto Rico, transformed the lives of formerly landless workers. Examination of the working conditions and social relations of workers before the program (1890s-1945) and their economic strategies, migration, and networks after becoming small landholders (1945-1960s) shows how they used their land to accommodate their practices of everyday life and their tactics of survival. Local ruling groups became hegemonic through the establishment of land distribution communities. The habitus of the new landholders expressed the ways in which they engaged in economic, social, and political activities shaped by the new urban space established by land distribution. In the process, recipients of land shaped the program to fit their everyday life, while the colonial state became hegemonic.

Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures. Carlos G. Vélez‐Ibañez and Anna Sampaio, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. 307 pp.