El Programa Bracero: los herederos generacionales de la migración mexicana transnacional y la cofradía identitaria

Resumen

The objective of this research paper is to analyze the impact of the Bracero Program from the experience and the sense of life of second generation migrants. We want to reflect what they the children of the laborers think about the participation of their parents in this temporary worker program. We want to recover this experience from their families of origin and how they perceive their own role as children; with this intention we also obtained information on how they see themselves as children of laborers while as cultural heirs of this experience labor. From the qualitative perspective of research we worked with in-depth interviews, with both the children of laborers in Colima, Mexico and Los Angeles, California, as well with their mothers (wives of laborers of the first generation) to obtain this collective memory. We defined categories of analysis that led us to think of a brotherhood identity (vulnerable, uneven and woven by social networks), that is useful to analyze the state of life of the generational heirs of transnational Mexican migration to the United States.