Using Vincenzo Pietropaolo. Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm
Workers in Canada and using following 5 pictures given in the links of Leonard Nadel, Bracero History Archives. –
1.) https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/1756
2.) https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/1312
3.) https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/2147
4.) https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/1925
5.) https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/2079
To address labour shortages in the agricultural sector, both the United States and Canada established bilateral agreements with the Mexican government such as the Bracero Program (1942–1964) and the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (1966–). Although these programs have offered impoverished Mexicans with alternative options of employment, they have often been marginalized and exploited by their host societies. You will carefully and critically analyze Nadel’s photographs of braceros and Pietropaolo’s photographs of guest workers, comparing and contrasting Mexican agricultural experiences in the United States and Canada. What do we learn about temporary work programs from their photographs? What do these pictures teach us about migrant Mexican experiences in North America?
