Mexican migrant workers travel by train to Los Angeles as participants in the Bracero Program, which was instituted by the American and Mexican goverments to ease agricultural labor shortages in the United States during World War Two.
An examination of “two particular salient issues — The number of Mexican migrants to the United States and the quantity of their monetary remittances to Mexico”
Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, USA by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her spell at the Resettlement Administration