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As this dissertation explores the meaning of conflict and collaboration between these three groups, I illustrate how Latina/o/xs were central to agricultural labor rights and popular culture in the Midwest, the Texas-Mexico borderlands, and Puerto Rico. “Latino Encounters” emerges from multi-site and multi-lingual research in U.S., Mexican, and Puerto Rican archives and makes three significant contributions to the fields of labor and migration. First, as this study examines Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Puerto Ricans alongside each other in experiences of farm labor, my dissertation questions the meaning of migrant work as it connects to citizenship. For example, while the concept of migrant work is assumed to be non-citizen labor, I illustrate the ways migrant work became racialized and drew from networks of Latina/o/xs who were U.S. citizens. Second, my dissertation questions the center of labor organization among farmworkers. 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