Michael Clemens
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Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist who studies international migration and global economic development.
Michael Clemens
Bracero Program
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The Bracero Program was a temporary labor initiative from 1942 to 1964 between the United States and Mexico that allowed Mexican workers to be employed in the U.S. agricultural and railroad industries
Michael Clemens
…sketches a four-point research agenda on the effects of emigration. He has also studied the effects on the US labor market from the exclusion of Mexican bracero farmworkers at the end of 1964. Clemens has also written about aid effectiveness, including an article for the Journal of Development Effectiveness…
Braceros arriving in Los Angeles in 1942
Mexican workers await legal employment in the United States, 1954
Mexican farm workers in Oregon during the Bracero Program
Delores Huerta. The image was taken in 2012 at the unveiling of Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Auditorium in Washington, DC.