Missing School Is a Given for Children of Migrant Farmworkers

Bazaz, Aggie Ebrahimi

doi:10.4324/9780429397868-50

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“…The impact on teenagers, who work in the fields all day, of having no access to privacy, recreation, or opportunities to socialize with those their own age, must be significant. While some school-age children do attend summer migrant education programs, for older students who are working and trying to make up missed academic credits because of their family migrating for summer employment, the lack of access to the internet or quiet spaces for study is challenging (Bazaz 2019).…”

Section: The Environmental and Social Context Of Living In Campsmentioning

confidence: 99%

La invisibilidad de los trabajadores agrícolas: Implicaciones y remedios

Saldanha

2022

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This article highlights the invisibility of farmworkers in Michigan, a state dependent on migrant labor for more than one hundred years. The study describes migrant housing camps using data from fieldwork, visits to housing camps, and the shadowing of outreach staff from service organizations. Although regulated, accommodations are minimal, substandard, and overcrowded, affecting the health and wellbeing of workers. The study describes what farmworkers do in their scant evening hours, the vulnerability of H-2A guest workers, the meticulousness accompanying outreach, and how farmworkers are visible to outreach staff. The study concludes by highlighting how farmworkers are just as invisible as are their housing camps, their contributions to the food movement, and their erasure from historic tales and promotional materials in local tourist towns, which stress the contributions of only some groups. The article underscores the value of outreach, the outstanding work performed by outreach staff, and avenues for increasing the visibility and advocacy on behalf of farmworkers.

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Section: The Environmental and Social Context Of Living In Campsmentioning

confidence: 99%