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Lideres Campesinas: Nepantla Strategies and Grassroots Organizing at the Intersection of Gender and Globalization
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Blackwell, Maylei – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2010
Based on a collaborative ethnography with Lideres Campesinas, a state-wide farmworker women's organization in California, this essay explores how activists have created multi-issued organizing strategies grounded in family structures and a community-based social world. Building on Gloria Anzaldua's theory of nepantla, it illustrates how campesina…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Global Approach, Organizations (Groups)
Migrant Family Housing Center. Annual Operational Summary, January - December 1976.
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California State Dept. of Employment Development, Sacramento. Migrant Services Section. – 1977
The Employment Development Department's Migrant Services Section provides temporary housing at reasonable cost for migrant farmworkers and their families. The Office of Migrant Services contracts with agencies of local government to manage programs of housing construction, operation and maintenance. Since 1965 migrant housing projects have been…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Agricultural Laborers, Ethnic Groups
Emerging Occupations in Agriculture: Impact upon Curricula and People, Part I. Yolo County, 1979. Final Report.
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California Univ., Davis. Dept. of Applied Behavioral Sciences. – 1979
A study was conducted to identify competencies needed by workers in new and emerging occupations in agriculture; to identify occupations in agriculture that are on the decline and occupations that may no longer be needed; to work toward the elimination of sex bias in preparation for entry into occupations in agriculture; and to assess the…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Curriculum Guides
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
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