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    537. IMMIGRATION IN PERSPECTIVE: THE BRACERO PROGRAM

    537. IMMIGRATION IN PERSPECTIVE: THE BRACERO PROGRAM

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    $30.00 USD
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    Willie Hiatt

    The federal Bracero Program (1942-64) permitted more than four million Mexicans to work in the United States on short-term contracts. Designed to address labor shortages during World War II, this guest-worker program departed from Depression-era initiatives that unjustly targeted and deported U.S. citizens. However, despite safeguards agreed to by both nations, Mexicans frequently faced discrimination, resentment, and harsh and unsafe working conditions. The program has garnered new attention in the context of today’s anti-immigration currents even as businesses desire access to foreign labor.


    10:00-12 noon

    1 Session

    Tuesday, March 24

    Fee:  $30

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Winter/Spring 2026
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Tuesday, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
    Date(s)
    Mar 24, 2026