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This 4 page paper examines Migrant Mexican Farm Workers in California and takes a look at how they live. The topic is looked at in historical perspective. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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who live in one location during the entire year" (Hovey & Magana, 2002, 493) . They usually find places to live that are located in the Southern portion of the
country, at least during the winter, but tend to go north during the harvesting or planting season (2002). There are three general migrant entities that are noted (Barger & Reza,
1994; Goldfarb, 1981 as cited in Hovey & Magana, 2002 ). The "West Coast stream" is one of them and is generally comprised of Mexican immigrants who tend to go
back to Mexico or at least the southwestern United States when the harvest season ends (2002). This is the stream that is generally seen in California. Mexican Migrant Farm
workers have been working Californias farms for quite some time. During the Great Depression, people all over the Untied States flocked to California and worked along side Mexican migrants ("The
Struggle," 2005). During the early part of the twentieth century, when organized labor was support by a myriad of organizations, the Mexican migrant workers were protected. There had been strikes
which were formed by the CAWIU which stands for Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (2005). Their organization worked along with the CUOM, which is a group of Mexican
workers who worked in the Imperial Valley (2005). In 1933, a strike was called and three quarters of the strikers were in fact from Mexico (2005). During the thirties, the
migrant community was big and helped California to thrive. Many left by the 1940s for other work. The Filipinos who came to California in droves, intended only to make and
save money in the United States, but return to their homeland afterwards ("Filipino," 2005). Thus, they saw themselves as sojourners, and so no serious effort of assimilation seemed to be
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