Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border
by
Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Structured to meet employers’ needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across...