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Download full textSlesinger, Doris P.; Cautley, Eleanor – 1988
This research project estimated migrant and seasonal agricultural workers in four Midwestern States in 1988, using the Public Health Service's definitions of such workers. Researchers collected federal agricultural data and state reports on migrant education programs and crop patterns, and considered other potential data sources. Numerous…
Descriptors: Dependents, Employment Patterns, Hispanic Americans, Maps
Norquest, Carrol – 1972
Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas saw a rise of wetback labor in the 1930s and 40s. The wetback laborers were Mexicans who had crossed the Rio Grande and were in the United States illegally to work. Carrol Norquest, a farmer in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, employed wetbacks regularly. In this book, Mr. Norquest writes about the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Agriculture, Books, Braceros
