| 单词 | bracero |
| 释义 | bracero, n. Chiefly U.S.
Brit. |brəˈsɛːrəʊ|, U.S. |brəˈsɛroʊ|
[‹ Spanish bracero manual labourer (1486) > n.2) + -ero -eer suffix1.]
A manual labourer; spec. a Mexican migrant worker in the United States, esp. (now hist.) one admitted to the country on a limited visa through any of various guest worker programmes in effect from 1942–64.
1946N.Y. Times 7 June 13/1 The enrollment of ‘braceros’ for farm labor in the United States. 1955E. Fergusson Mexico Revisited i. 7 This labor drift promises to be permanent, though unions in the United States complain that braceros upset our labor market, and Mexican employers inveigh against luring their workers away with high pay. 1992New Yorker 24 Feb. 70/2 They do not welcome those Haitians who filter across the frontier, except as braceros, cane-cutters who work in conditions not far removed from slavery. 1995Atlantic Nov. 104/1 Once in this country, the braceros were all but powerless and were bound to a single employer. The Bracero Program was terminated amid revelations that its guest workers were being widely abused. 2002Nation 2 Dec. 7/2 Call them temps, braceros, guest workers or seasonal employees, these workers have few legal protections and no rights under US labor law. |
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