Abstract

ASTORGA-MORALES, Abel  and  SCHAFFHAUSER-MIZZI, Philippe. Mexican ex-Braceros. A Transnational Social Movement of (ex) Migrants. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.31, pp.93-122.  Epub Aug 03, 2022. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v14n31.95464.

During the course of twenty-three years, the ex-braceros migrant social movement has maintained a binational presence in Mexico and the United States. It has manifested in a wide repertoire of actions, such as protests from the domestic to the transnational sphere. This article will give an account of this movement's origin in 1998 and the central narrative of its process, explaining the injustices that arose during the Bracero Program (1942-1964) in which they base their current demands. There will also be a recount and analysis of the most significant protests that led this movement to obtain certain achievements, as well as the institutional failures during the operation of the social support program for ex-braceros. This paper offers an historical and sociological approach to this social phenomenon. There will also be an account of theoretical-conceptual references such as: memory, identity, agnotology and repertoires of action. It will also be noted that in the face of neglect and null dialogue in the domestic sphere, the development of new social practices was promoted. These would be manifested in civil protests, allowing the case to come before the United Nations (UN), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and courts of conscience such as the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, thereby consolidating the transnational character of the social movement.

Keywords : social movement; ex braceros; memory; identity; agnotology; dispossession; identity; migrant worker's movements.

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