University of Texas at El Paso ScholarWorks@UTEP Combined Interviews Institute of Oral History 6-28-2008 Interview no. 1428 Luis Barozio Ceja Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utep.edu/interviews Part of the Labor History Commons, Oral History Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Interview with Luis Barozio Ceja by Mireya Loza, 2008, "Interview no. 1428," Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Institute of Oral History at ScholarWorks@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Combined Interviews by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UTEP. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. University of Texas at El Paso Institute of Oral History Interviewee: Luis Barozio Ceja Interviewer: Mireya Loza Project: Bracero Oral History Location: Jiquilpan, Michoacán, México Date of Interview: June 28, 2008 Terms of Use: Unrestricted Tape No.: Transcript No.: 1428 Transcriber: GMR Transcription Service Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Luis Barozio Ceja was born on May 5, 1923, in Nicolás Romero, Michoacán, México; his parents worked in agriculture on an hacienda, but they later obtained their own ejido; he was formally educated and even studied as a veterinarian at the university in México, Distrito Federal; later, during the early forties, he enlisted in the bracero program, and he continued to work on and off as a bracero until the program ended in 1964; as a bracero, he labored in the fields of California and Texas picking various fruits and vegetables; during the early seventies, he was an undocumented worker in the United States, but he later returned to México, where he settled with his family.