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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts migration and immigration from the Dustbowl and Mexico respectively during this time period. The importance of relationships are highlighted. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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most significant relationships that govern internal and external life as it involves Dust Bowl refugees and Mexican immigrants in California during the 1930s? Why did these relationships develop? In
respect to the Dust Bowl migrants, Gregory (1991) explains that "networks of personal relationships determined much about the economic adjustment experiences of individual migrants" (p. 46). The migrants who
did not have personal relationships had a difficult time finding employment (Gregory, 1991). Things are not this way anymore of course, but people who did live through the fifties, sixties
and even seventies realize that before tough employment laws were enforced, nepotism was a common practice. Similarly, people with friends in high places would get somewhere. Today, with affirmative action
and laws which prohibit discrimination due to race, gender and so forth, employers generally advertise their job offerings. It is not as if the practice does not go on today,
but the point is that during this time frame and place, it was who one knew that would get them a job. Thus, these relationships would develop and be deemed
important. Gregory (1991) points out that very few people would simply uproot without knowing someone in their destination city. Yet, some people did, but they were truly confident or
very adventurous (Gregory, 1991). For the most part, the relationships had been there from the start. Someone might know another individual who had already made the transition and then go
to California themselves for a better life. At that point, it is likely that excitement had set it. It was not the grand adventure many people may have thought it
would be. After all, their ticket was written even before anyone arrived. Gregory (1991) provides an anecdote and explains that someone by the name of Sherman Coleman did not
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