Migrant+Workers


 * The Migrant Experience**

The term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national. Most migrant workers were small families or single men. Migrant were usually not educated or if so at a very low education Migrant workers are low-wage workers preforming manual labor in foreign countries. Some might call migrant work a lucrative job. Most of the migrant workers were Latino or Asian, they were poorly treated. Also being placed at the bottom of the totem pole. Most migrant workers came during the great depression, when most were in complete turmoil. The migrant workers worker for low-wages and would work for long hours if desired.

= Facts about Migrant workers: =
 * 1) At least 81% of all farmworkers were foreign born.
 * 2) 5 out of 6 migrant workers do not speak English
 * 3) The other percent of migrant workers were referred as "okies" which means they were from Oklahoma.
 * 4) All migrant workers were discriminated by the average person
 * 5) Although the Dust Bowl included many Great Plains states, the migrants were generically known as "Okies," referring to the approximately 20 percent who were from Oklahoma
 * 6) When they were not working or looking for work, or tending to the civil and domestic operations of the camp, the migrants found time to engage in recreational activities. Singing and making music took place both in private living quarters and in public spaces.
 * 7) The unemployment rate during the great depression was around 30%
 * 8) Migrant workers generally had Latino or Asian roots
 * 9) The Dust Bowl was a seven year drought that caused many farmers to pack up their familys and move to California in hope of better land and a better harvest.

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What event in American History led to farmers in the west increase their productivity?

What was the unemployment rate during the great depression?

What was the dust bowl?

Where did most of the farmers move after the dust bowl?

Why did so many migrant farm workers pick California to move to?

Were did migrant farmers stay when they were looking for work?

Why did farmers choose migrant workers over regular hired hands?

what were the 5 places that most migrant workers came from?

What did the term an "Okie" mean?

What did migrant workers help do while they were in United States?

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Special thanks to: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html [|wikipedia.com] [|www.migrant.net]