Sentences with phrase «mexican braceros»

Many US - born children of Mexican braceros were wrongly repatriated, along with their parents.

Mexican braceros in an undated photograph.

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To compensate, the government allowed farmers to hire Mexican workers — known as braceros, Spanish for «manual labourers» — on a temporary basis.

When the U.S. ended the bracero program 1964, which had allowed large numbers of Mexicans to work on U.S. farms, neither the wages nor the employment rates of U.S. farm workers rose, according to recent research by economists Michael Clemens, Hannah Postel and me.

In the second half of the 19th century tens of thousands of Mexicans — called braceros, a term deriving from brazo, the Spanish word for «arm» — had moved to the U.S. to work in agriculture, mining and light industry.

Cajas de cartón: Francisco Jiménez bases this novel, as well as its sequels Senderos fronterizos and Más allá de mí, on his own experiences as a child of Mexican immigrants who arrived to 1940s California during the bracero program.