By Cindy Hahamovitch
From South Africa within the 19th century to Hong Kong this present day, countries worldwide, together with the us, have grew to become to guestworker courses to control migration. those transitority hard work recruitment structures represented a state-brokered compromise among employers who sought after international staff and those that feared emerging numbers of immigrants. not like immigrants, guestworkers could not settle, convey their households, or turn into electorate, they usually had few rights. certainly, rather than making a plausible type of migration, guestworker courses created an extremely weak classification of labor.
according to an unlimited array of resources from united states, Jamaican, and English data, in addition to interviews, No Man's Land tells the historical past of the yank "H2" software, the world's moment oldest guestworker software. due to the fact that international battle II, the H2 application has introduced thousands of generally Jamaican males to the U.S. to perform a little of the nation's dirtiest and most deadly farmwork for a few of its largest and strongest agricultural firms, businesses that had the facility to import and deport employees from in another country. Jamaican guestworkers occupied a no man's land among international locations, safe neither through their domestic govt nor via the USA. the employees complained, went on strike, and sued their employers in school motion proceedings, yet their protests had little impression simply because they can be repatriated and changed in a question of hours.
No Man's Land places Jamaican guestworkers' stories within the context of the worldwide historical past of this fast-growing and dangerous kind of hard work migration.
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