Ana Elizabeth Rosas
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520282667
- eISBN:
- 9780520958654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520282667.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
The children of braceros drive this chapter’s historical consideration of the U.S. and Mexican governments’ failure to protect them as children when enforcing the Bracero Program’s conditions and ...
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The children of braceros drive this chapter’s historical consideration of the U.S. and Mexican governments’ failure to protect them as children when enforcing the Bracero Program’s conditions and terms. Using the oral life histories of these children and their bracero parents, the incentives behind depending on these children to labor either in the place of their absent bracero parents in Mexico and alongside them in the United States—or to journey in search of them across the U.S.-Mexico border—are discussed to magnify the underestimated consequences of the program. The employment conditions and terms, the trauma, and the educational models that cast these children as unskilled workers in the making cornered them to prove themselves exemplary and without equal.Less
The children of braceros drive this chapter’s historical consideration of the U.S. and Mexican governments’ failure to protect them as children when enforcing the Bracero Program’s conditions and terms. Using the oral life histories of these children and their bracero parents, the incentives behind depending on these children to labor either in the place of their absent bracero parents in Mexico and alongside them in the United States—or to journey in search of them across the U.S.-Mexico border—are discussed to magnify the underestimated consequences of the program. The employment conditions and terms, the trauma, and the educational models that cast these children as unskilled workers in the making cornered them to prove themselves exemplary and without equal.
