“A New Non-Entity”
Border Commuters, the Peyton Strike, and the Adverse Effect Standard in Immigration Law, 1958–1972
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Parulian Harvey (0000-0002-9845-7556, Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-63 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-1851 • E-ISSN: 2515-0456 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/mah.2022.25 |
| OpenAlex | W4377097818 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article uses a 1958–1962 strike at the Peyton Packing Company in El Paso, Texas, to examine how labor unions in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands used racial stereotypes and Cold War paranoia to influence the adoption of a more rigorous labor certification standard for those applying for a visa to enter the United State. Ultimately, labor unions and Mexican American workers sought to end the practice of border commuting by adopting and advancing the language of immigration restriction deployed by many Mexican American civil rights leaders of the era. This rhetoric ignored pleas for improving the minimum wage laws and protections and overlooked the fact that many border commuters wanted to migrate to the United States, but were often prevented from doing so by existing immigration laws. This case study forces historians of immigration and labor to reassess the role that labor unions played in helping to make the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act more exclusionary than previously thought
Certification · Economic growth · Economics · Illegal immigration · Immigration · Immigration law · Immigration policy · Labor disputes · Labor relations · Migrant workers · Political science · Rhetoric · Spanish Civil War · Wage · Labor Movements and Unions · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
The Law that Changed the Face of America
Blue Texas
Porous Borders
Border Lives
The INS on the Line
Making Foreigners
Walls and Mirrors
Impossible Subjects
Border commuter workers and transfrontier metropolitan structure along the United States‐Mexico Border
Aliens in the Fields
Undocumented Lives
Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Trampling Out the Vintage
The Citizenship Sacrifice
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |