
Published online:
20 September 2012
Published in print:
26 July 2012
Online ISBN:
9780199950256
Print ISBN:
9780199760268
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The “Chicago Experiment”: A Colony of Contract Migrant Workers The “Chicago Experiment”: A Colony of Contract Migrant Workers
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Puerto Rican Graduate Students Taking Up the Cudgels Puerto Rican Graduate Students Taking Up the Cudgels
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“Look Out for the Girls”: Puerto Rican Workers and a Puerto Rican Social Worker “Look Out for the Girls”: Puerto Rican Workers and a Puerto Rican Social Worker
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“Knowledge … [for] More Skillful Living and Human Understanding” “Knowledge … [for] More Skillful Living and Human Understanding”
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Chapter
1 A Female Network of Domestics, Student Allies, and Social Workers
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3–31
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Published:July 2012
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Rúa, Mérida M., 'A Female Network of Domestics, Student Allies, and Social Workers', A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199760268.003.0001, accessed 5 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter investigates different dimensions of the “Chicago experiment,” the employment campaign intended to bring low-wage Puerto Rican maids to the city and also to serve as a form of birth control to reduce the population growth of the island. In doing so, it reveals not only the competing interests of the Puerto Rican government and the US government in regulating women’s bodies and the role of women in altering those schemes, but also the intellectual rivalries of scholars and institutions in producing gendered and racialized knowledge about migration and modernization.
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