Sentences with word «bracero»

Mexican braceros in an undated photograph.

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

At its height in the late 1950s, over 400,000 braceros came to legally work in the United States every year.

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.

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

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

A prolonged, sputtering political fight ensued, leading to the end of the braceros program in 1964.

Once again, there's an instructive parallel with the braceros program: during its run, the number of California natives employed in the agriculture sector remained relatively constant.

The contemporary parallels with the braceros program are plentiful.

At its height, 27 % of the agricultural workforce in California were braceros.

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.

From 1942 to 1964, under the bracero program, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service issued over 4 million temporary work visas to Mexicans.

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.