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Definition of Bracero
1. Noun. A Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II.
Definition of Bracero
1. Noun. A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to braceros, and especially the Bracero Program. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bracero
1. a Mexican laborer [n -ROS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bracero
Literary usage of Bracero
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immigration and Nationality Act (1995) by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"The so-called "bracero" program derived from agricultural exchange programs
operated under Executive agreements between the United States and Mexico before ..."
2. Employment Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"The bracero program became increasingly controversial in the late 1950s.
Union organizers such as Ernesto Galarza complained bitterly that US citizen farm ..."
3. The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration: Council Special Report No. 26 by Gordon H. Hanson (2007)
"14 The US Congress enacted the bracero program in response to the labor crunch
associated with World War II, according to Kitty Calavita, Inside the State: ..."
4. Oecd Economic Surveys: Mexico by OECD (2004)
"They grew after the First World War, and again during the Second World War, when
the first bilateral bracero 1day labourer) programme was set-up by the two ..."
5. Spanish Tales for Beginners by Louise Ahlers Reinhardt (1919)
"de bracero, arm in arm. bramar (de), to roar (with). brazo, m., arm; al brazo,
on his (her) arm. bregar, to struggle. breve, short, brief; breves instantes, ..."
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