Voices from the fields : children of migrant farmworkers tell their stories

by S. Beth Atkin

Paper Book, 1993

Description

Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.

Status

Available

Call number

305.23/0896872

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1993.

Collection

Labor Movement

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LibraryThing member rgruberexcel

RGG: Very compelling personal accounts of different aspects of being the teenage children of migrant workers. The discussion of gangs and teenage pregnancy may be for more mature readers. And the book may feel a little dated since the accounts are from the 1990's. Reading Level: Z.

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LibraryThing member cm37107

children who reveal the hardships and hopes of today's Mexican-American migrant farm workers and their families.

LibraryThing member engpunk77

I'm re-reading right now as I read Esperanza Rising again with my kids. Not much has changed for migrant farmers in the last 70 years save for more efforts by outside agencies to try to help the children; it's so unfair to the kids and makes me sad, but they seem content with their fate and the

programs aren't always that effective. Perhaps I'm just projecting my middle-class ideals on these workers, but it seems to me that the kids have little choice but to perpetuate the cycle of migrant work and poverty.

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