The objective of this paper is to make a first approach to the study of the social movement of former braceros. This movement emerged in 1998, and is constituted by elderly people who express their dissatisfaction by the fact that their savings funds were deprived in the past, especially when the Bracero Program was initiated in 1942 and finished in 1964. It was a bilateral agreement between Mexico and the U.S. so that Mexicans could work legally in the United States. One of the statutes established that each worker would be deduced a ten percent wage as saving funds, which would be refunded once in their country. However, the process of devolution was plagued by inconsistencies and the Mexicans never saw that money. Thus, we will focus on explaining why these amounts were not returned, what was done with them and we will describe and analyze as well the actions taken by the movement emanated from it in the nineties in order to achieve the restitution of their money and outcomes. These considerations will be seen under the perspectives of the study of social movements.
