El inmigrante, una herramienta un invasor: análisis de la construcción intersubjetiva de la imagen del trabajador mexicano en los Estados Unidos de América

Abstract

This monograph studies the history of the labour relationship between Mexico and the United States, analyzing under Wendt’s Constructivism how, from the end of the 19th.Century, bilateral political processes are developed, that, following the multilateral productive context tendencies, build an intersubjective imaginary of the Mexican work force, initially as a tool for the farm industry model and, eventually, as an invader in economic recession periods. By using the immigrant worker as cheap labour or as escape-goat an imaginary has been established in both nations that, because of its negative connotation, thrusts vindicating civil movements. From the beginnings of the 20th. Century this civil associations work, transnationally, to change the image and restructure the factors that historically stimulated them to become actors of the International System.