Sentences with phrase «as braceros»

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

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Meant as a stopgap measure, the braceros program lasted 22 years.

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.