Image: A group of bracero workers at the Monterrey, Mexico, processing center in 1956. (Leonard Nadel/National Museum of American History).

General Resources

The Bracero History Archive.

Bracero Oral History Project.

UCLA Labor Center: Resources about the Bracero Program.

Books

Deborah Cohen: Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico.

Mireya Loza: Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom.

Alberto García Maldonado: Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico. Forthcoming.

Ronald Mize & Alicia Swords: Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA.

Articles

Lori A. Flores: A Town Full of Dead Mexicans: The Salinas Valley Bracero Tragedy of 1963, the End of the Bracero Program, and the Evolution of California’s Chicano Movement.

Matt Garcia: Ambassadors in Overalls: Mexican Guest Workers and the Future of Labor.

Mireya Loza: 100 Years of Mexican Guest Workers in the United States.

Brendan Seibel: These intimate photos chronicle the Mexican worker program that helped ‘feed and build America’: Then these ‘braceros’ were just expected to return to their country.

Wikipedia:

• Bracero Program.
• Bracero Selection Process.
• Operation Wetback.
• Chualar bus crash.

Videos & Podcasts

The Braceros at 80.

Forgotten Voices: The Story of the Bracero Program.

Alberto García Maldonado: Faith, Conflict, and Bracero Migration in Mexico’s Greater Bajío.

Mireya Loza: Latino Labor History.

New Books Network Podcast: Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom.