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This article examines Mexican migration to the US during the Bracero Program, the unofficial name for the series of US-Mexico agreements that brought Mexican men to work in US agricultural fields from 1942 to 1964. Juxtaposing Mexican and US states' goals for the Program to migrants' understandings of their journeys, the article shows how this migration disrupted men's subjectivities, even as it simultaneously provided the mechanisms to resecure gender and class subjectivities and claims in crucial way. Revealed, ultimately, is what was forged in the wake of this migration: a new kind of historical actor, transnationally gendered and classed.

The Kenyan government and medical charities are fighting hard to deliver good health care to the people of Kenya. Deborah Cohen looks at the particular difficulties involved in providing care to the nomadic people of Turkana, in the north west of the country

Visibility: this term has had a formidable presence in feminist scholarship. [1] In the 1970s, feminist scholars and activists clamored both for a specifically "women's" history and for women to be written back into the history of the nation more generally, arguing that history and nationhood are inextricably linked. Their goal was to make women's participation in the nation and in history known and visible. While feminists subsequently realized that writing women into official history did not automatically make us visible or ensure our national belonging, the reverse did occur: we assumed the visibility of men. In advocating for women's inclusion, we mistakenly assumed that all men were equally visible as citizen-subjects and that exclusion from the nation was based only on gender. This article calls that assumption into question. Using as a yardstick what I term social visibility, I will explore how the Mexican state meted out visibility and drew men formerly seen as outside its bounds into the recognized sphere of the nation. This uneven process of incorporation became a way of consolidating and legitimating both the conception of the nation put forth by the revolutionary state and also itself as the primary –if not sole-- actor authorized to speak on the nation's behalf.