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"Even machines get a rest": the commodification of the H-2A Indigenous sheepherder in Colorado's Western Slope

dc.contributor.authorCoenen, Shirley Man-Kin, author
dc.contributor.authorSagas, Ernesto, advisor
dc.contributor.authorSouza, Caridad, committee member
dc.contributor.authorFernandez Gimenez, Maria, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-12T16:13:58Z
dc.date.available2018-06-12T16:13:58Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis project uses an exploratory, qualitative study to examine the ways in which the H-2A "guestworker" program in the United States is racialized and gendered as a temporary, state-controlled, foreign labor system. This project is accomplished through the exploration of testimonios of H-2A sheepherders in Colorado, and how these narratives are informed by race, class and the gendered identities of guestworkers. While there is significant descriptive work on labor and migration throughout U.S. history, there is a paucity of contemporary scholarship on guestworkers situated within a critical race and gendered lens. This work aims to bridge that gap by drawing from the conceptual frameworks within ethnic studies to integrate both race and gender. By analyzing patterns that emerge within the H-2A visa workers narratives, one can gain a perspective on the role of temporary guestworker programs in modern day transnational immigration practices. This leads to a basis for a theoretically grounded perspective on how race and gender influence modern guestworker labor practices.
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dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifierCoenen_colostate_0053N_14704.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/189327
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.title"Even machines get a rest": the commodification of the H-2A Indigenous sheepherder in Colorado's Western Slope
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thesis.degree.disciplineEthnic Studies
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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