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Three Years of Amnesty Education in California. IRCA Pre-Enrollment Appraisal Results for New Californians. Report Highlights.
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Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System, San Diego, CA. – 1992
Data on the status of education for immigrant amnesty applicants in California under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) are summarized. The amnesty applicants fall into two categories: immigrants who can prove continuous U.S. residency before 1982, and "special agricultural workers" who qualify if they worked in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, Civics
Migrant Family Housing Centers. Annual Operational Summary, February 1978.
California State Dept. of Employment Development, Sacramento. Migrant Services Section. – 1978
The Employment Development Department's Migrant Services Section provides temporary housing at reasonable cost for migrant farmworkers and their families by contracting with local government agencies to manage programs of housing construction, operation and maintenance. Since 1965 migrant housing projects have been constructed at 26 locations in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Agricultural Laborers, Ethnic Groups
Annual Operational Summary Migrant Family Housing Centers, 1978 Open Season.
California State Dept. of Employment Development, Sacramento. Migrant Services Section. – 1979
During the 1978 agricultural season, migrant farmworkers and their families occupied 2,079 rental units at 26 migrant housing centers provided by the Office of Migrant Services. Supportive services at the centers included day care centers for children two to five years of age, a few infant care facilities, and access to medical serivces,…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Agricultural Laborers, Anglo Americans, Blacks
Campesinas: Women Farmworkers in the California Agricultural Labor Force. Report of a Study Project by The California Commission on the Status of Women.
Barton, Amy E. – 1978
A one year descriptive study of demographic characteristics, employment situations, and supportive services needs of women farmworkers in the California labor force was conducted in 1977-78. Data were collected in interviews with both employers and 400 women and 200 men engaged in farmwork in Fresno and Imperial Counties. Most of the women were of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes