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The History Hour: The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

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The Mexican Braceros

24/11/2018 GMT

The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

The US welcomes Mexican migrants, the USSR welcomes foreign students plus Arafat's death

How America opened its doors to Mexican migrant workers; when the USSR invited thousands of foreign students to Moscow, Arafat's final weeks and Wellington's funeral.

From 1942 to 1964 the US actively encouraged American farmers to hire tens of thousands of migrant workers to come to work legally from Mexico - they were known as 'braceros'; also, when Moscow invited thousands of foreign students to attend an International Youth Festival in the former USSR; a witness to the funeral of the Duke of Wellington; plus Arafat's final weeks and why was JKF's killer allowed to defect to the Soviets?

Photo: A group of Mexican Braceros picking strawberries in a field in the Salinas Valley, California in June 1963 (Getty Images)

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