Interview

Preguntas de entrevista:                                                                                                             

1.     ¿Como fue que se entero de la oportunidad de ser bracero?                                         
¿Cuantos anos tenia?

2.    ¿Donde fue a solicitar para trabajo?

3.     ¿Como viajaba?

4.     ¿En que trabajo Don Leandro Pesina?

5.     ¿Había maltrato que el le contaba de (racismo) gente general?

6.     ¿Fue pagado por jefes/ us gov justamente?

7.     ¿Recibieron el “ahorros” que debien de recibir en mexico?

8.     ¿Como fueron condiciones de trabajo?

9.     ¿Fue maltratado por autoridades en un algún tiempo (adentro EEUU o en frontera)?

Interview questions:

1. How did he find out of the opportunity to become a bracero? How old was he at the time?

2. Where did he go to find/ask for work?

3. How did he travel?

4. In what did Leandro Pesina work in?

5. Was there any mistreatment(racism) that he told you about he received from the general people?

6. Was he paid by his bosses/ US gov. justly?

7. How were the working conditions?

8. Was he mistreated by authorities at any time (in the US or at the border)?

Description: An interview with Domitila Pesina, wife and widow of Don Leandro Pesina, who was a bracero in 1960. She gives his backstory of how he lived his life prior, during, and after the bracero program. He was always a worker in the agriculture field. He lived quite an interesting life that was full of tough times to get through and support his family of 11, however it made him who he was and who all family admired. We asked about his time as a bracero and about the injustices we learned about and if/how they affected him.