Migrant Workers In California Summary

In a lot of cities in the United States in the west especially in states like California there is a small section in that city. That has people from the Midwest that have settled in. In that part of town there are people from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansan that all migrated when the dust bowl was accruing. Or as a lot of people know them by the okies. These people migrated to California during the 1930s when after the country was suffering from the great depression. The great depression had happen after a lot of Europe countries were striating to recover from the First World War. At first those countries were relying on the United State for food, because after the war a lot of those countries were destroyed. So during that time the united state

Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos were all brought in to work, but their low standard of living and attempts to organize caused race riots by the white labor force and subsequent removal of foreign workers from the agricultural industry. The need for cheap labor therefore remained. To fill this void, many Mexican workers were brought in;so many that the white worker could not even live in southern California anymore because the wages were so low. Eventually the Mexican worker population grew so massive that they too began to organize, causing the growers to take action against them with "vigilante terrorism and savagery unbelievable in a civilized state" (pg 54). Eventually Mexican labor was withdrawn as well.

The life of a migrant worker in the 1930s were very depressing one. The Great Depression cause many workers to move from place to place for jobs. Most of these migrant workers are alone with no friends or family and unable to trust people. Some Just like George and Lennie from the book Of Mice Of Men travel together. Of Mice and Men is a story about two men the The Great Depression

This is also the greatest fear of the wealthy landowners, who do everything in their power to keep the workers from organizing. The author, John Steinbeck, writes, "For here `I lost my land' is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate - `We lost our land.' The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one"(206;Ch. 14). This is why, in the government camp where the Joads stay for a while once they get to California, the landowners try to set up a fight so police can be brought in when they weren't allowed before. The government camp represents, in the most tangible way shown in the novel, the positive results of organization and working together to achieve something. The government camp is completely independent of the system outside its walls - the people take care of each other and make their own rules. This is the place where quality of life is best for the Joads. Jim Rawley, the camp manager, comments on the hard work of the people when speaking to Ma Joad: "They keep the camp clean, they keep order, they do everything. I never saw such people"(415;Ch. 22). This is the result of cooperation instead of disorganization. This is the very thing that the wealthy want to destroy.

Mexicans have been in California before California was even a state, yet they have not always been treated well. However, they continue to come to the United States, so they can hopefully have a better life in the United States. Currently, lots of Mexican immigrants come to California, often to work in the fields and farms. As the bottom of California lines the border between the United States and Mexico, many come to live in Southern California, not Northern California. Latinos are especially prominent in Los Angeles and many of the cities under LA County. Attitudes towards Chicanos have mostly changed for the better over the years, but they are still often considered as “job stealers” and less valuable than other minorities, such as Asian Americans. Even though Latinos help power the economy and are capable of changing election results, some people refuse to see this and see them as invading immigrants. Mexican Americans often have lesser jobs compared to their white counterparts, do worse in school, often live in poverty, and are more likely to be discriminated against.

A common biased opinion on immigration is that immigrants coming to the United States are taking American jobs. According to the Immigration Policy Center, “research indicates there is little connection between immigrant labor and unemployment rates of native-born workers.” The jobs that immigrants are taking are the low-budget jobs that Americans do not want. They not only get less pay, but also less benefits in comparison to American workers. In fact, according to Forbes, “illegal immigrants actually raise wages for documented/native workers.” America is considered to be more productive when we have more trading partners, Undocumented workers with limited English skills allows more American workers

The Mexican Migrant Farm Workers’ community formed in Southern California in the 20th century because of two factors that came together: farming emphasized by migrations like the Okie farmers from the East and Mexicans “imported” to the U.S. because of the need for cheap labor as a replacement of Americans during World War II. The migrant labor group formed after an already similar group in the U.S had been established in California, the American farm workers from the East, known as the Okies. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s caused the movement of the Okies to the West and was followed by the transition from American dominant farm labor to Mexican migrant labor. The Okies reinforced farming in California through the skills they took with them,

          The Joads arrive in California and never find the paradise they had convinced themselves existed there. With their only hope for salvation dashed, they unwillingly discover the politics of labor. After meeting the mayor of Hooverville, where they decide to camp, Tom learns from

To begin, In Latino Metropolis, Victor Valle and Rodolfo Torres suggest that the Latino population is a vital group to the political economy of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles economy was constructed through the manual labor of largely Latino immigrants, which the city today still heavily depends on (Valle and Torres, 2000, 15-16). In their chapter, Economic Geography of Latino Los Angeles, Valle and Torres argue that Latino immigrants working in the labor workforce in the Southeast Los Angeles area (cities such Vernon, Maywood, Bell, etc.) are often discriminated and often depicted by the media, anti-immigrant leaders, and sympathizers as victims and villains (Valle and Torres, 2000,

In California there is a rising problem in immigrant violence. The immigration policy is forcing the police/sheriffs to let violent illegal immigrants go. And they cannot ice hold them unless there is a warrant out for their arrest. The LLE (local law enforcement) wants to change this policy to help us capture the dangerous illegal immigrants.

To demonstrate, the Spanish migration to California was not beneficial to its native Indians inhabitants of the region. Prior to Spanish contact, native Indians lived and settled in vast regions across California. California Indians themselves are also considered migrants to the Americas. A scientific theory suggested that all native people began in Africa, then spread widely across to the Far East of Asia and came across the Bering Strait during the Ice Age. As the Ice Age cleared, they began to move southward (Erik Lecture, 1/11). The Native Californian Indians themselves were migrants. However, according to the Tonguv, a native Los Angeles tribe, they do not agree with this idea. They suggest that they have been in California since the beginning

DeAnna Smiley Ms. Schlabach U.S History September 25, 2017 1960s; Mexican Farm Workers Living Condition In the 1960s in the United States, migrant farm workers, particularly Mexicans, were living in a poor condition. The immigration in the United States was to be a dream of freedom but also a way to help and support their family in their home country you could say. Many immigrants had come to America looking for jobs that can support their family, but many such as Mexican farm workers had struggled in the time.

Estimates state that over 1.2 million people immigrate to the United States each year, thereby thrusting the issue of illegal immigration to the forefront of today news headlines. From an economic standpoint, the effort to absorb illegal immigrants often negatively impacts cities as well as the entire country. This paper addresses the negative economic outcome of illegal immigration in the city of Los Angeles, California through the exploration of studies conducted and statistics available on the issue of illegal immigration. An effort will be made to determine whether there is negative fiscal impact on the labor market, the tax structure,

Weather so hot it lands victim in the hospital or in a deathbed, a hot skin burning sun, more than 100 degrees of heat. These are the conditions that migrant workers find themselves working in and it does not end with just the sun being a problem. Migrant workers offer labor to whoever is offering and are willing to move to any location for the job. Migrant workers are the people that do the jobs most people do not want to do. Most of the times they get to work and get the food our countries’ populations are depending on. Not many people sit down on the dining table and thinks about how their food got in front of them; the sweat and blood and sacrifices that was put into him or her getting to eat that meal. If it were not for migrant workers,

the workers were not provided with stable housing or living space. For example in our country a migratory worker looking for work might rent a house or stay in a motel or hotel. Unlike in the US, in qatar migrant workers were forced to live in camps. These camps were located near where the world cup was being built. People lived in tents or small shacks with no running water. Once the workers were employed their legal residence would be transferred to their employer. This meant that they could not leave the country unless their employer said so. These people were then forced to work even when working in those high temperatures could kill them. Some workers would work in the direct mid day heat and would die of heat exhaustion. Heat exhaustion