The Migrant Worker Lifestyle Can Be Largely Explained As A Subculture

Since many laborers were immigrants, they frequently spoke different languages and harbored racial and cultural biases. Many only planned to stay in America long enough to earn enough money to return to their homelands

When migrants come to US, they should find jobs. Here a lot of differences between Mexican, Central Americans and Cubans. When Cubans come, they have some level of education that is why they have much higher wages. Also, they almost all work in management businesses, like restaurants, hotels, and regular businesses. But it is different with Mexican and Central American migration. Coming here for them means to work on low wage jobs with no benefits, to be abused in the workplaces, always to live in fear not to be paid. I think this also effects on American attitude towards

The United States has been the land of opportunity for immigrants. It is a place where immigrants from all over the world come to build a better dream and future for their families and leave from poverty, they come with nothing but determination. One thing that every immigrant brings with them is their culture. A person's culture is strongly tied to the country where they grew up. It is tied to their relationship with their family. Many people come to America from so many different places all over the world. For this reason, people call America a melting pot of cultures immigrants are striving for a better future even though when they migrate to the USA they don’t know the consequences they will face and struggle to be successful living in the United States.

There is a Mexican man that enters with the rest of his family. They eat beans, rice, flour tortillas and etc. The family does there every day routine, the dad wakes up at six- thirty to go to work in his truck. The children go to school and the mother stays at home. The things a person does in their all has a reason which goes all back to culture. Culture is what makes up everyone different from one another. Texts such as “What is Cultural Identity?”, “Where Worlds Collide” and “Two ways to Belong” supports that depending on one’s culture it effects one perspective on the world and others.

After the Great Depression and the drought, many workers moved from place to place to get work, and they harvested crops seasonally as farm laborers. These people were known as migrants workers. These workers worked very hard, but earned very little, and the conditions on the fields where they worked were uncivil. For example, there were no bathrooms or drinking water available to the workers. A man named Cesar Chavez was another migrant worker born in Yuma, Arizona in 1927. Chavez decided to step up and fight for the civil rights of these migrant workers using his persistence and willingness to sacrifice to be an effective leader.

The phenomenal growth farming, minding, railroad construction, and commercial fishing all have a story of transnational families and shattered dreams. With the coming of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, many mexicans fled north to the United States in order to escape the bloodshed in search of new lives. Sadly their dream for a better life did not come true. Migrant workers work for low wages in extreme conditions such as extreme heat, discomfort, and danger, as well as struggling to have a stable life for their families. The disastrous great depression left many people unemployed. As a result, a large number of caucasian people took over many migrant workers’ jobs in California. This left many Mexicans and Filipinos desperate and willing to do anything for money. Farm workers were often unpaid and were denied the right to unionize, a right that all other American workers enjoyed. Migrant workers are from different ethnicities such as Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, Europeans, but most of the population is made up of Mexican migrant workers. Migrant workers lived a very harsh work environment as well as a harsh society interactions. Mexican farm workers were offered a legally binding work contract, but the majority suffered gross abuses of their labor rights and racial discrimination. Migrant workers have always played a vital role in the US economy, so they should not be treated as illegal or undeserving individuals. People have always harassed migrant workers and soon it

Undocumented immigrants make up a large portion of the workforce doing jobs that are undesirable to many people. They leave their stable live in search of better opportunities for their family. The people who come to the united states do not come because of their own benefit. They come in search of benefitting their next generation. Immigrant workers know that the position that they are in is not the best and is more difficult to change their own path in life, so they put their focus on raising children in an environment where their children can see the benefit if certain commodities like an education. Although they have difficult jobs with small compensations and no benefits, they continue to work to serve as an example that hard work is the

Migrant farm workers in America go through struggles that middle class and privileged people of any race couldn’t even begin to comprehend without deep research. The types of pain that migrant farm workers endure on a day to day basis is incredible. As the consumers in a modern capitalist society, middle-class Americans are the reason that migrant farm workers have to raise their kids preparing them to work in servitude. The migrants don't want to work in the harsh conditions but they have to in order to have a “steady” income. Migrant farm workers in America are some of the most vulnerable of the oppressed groups because they work hard for endless hours at a time to provide to

Latin American migrants come into the United States for a better life. Many of them are seeking refuge from their home countries as it has become too dangerous to live in. They bring with them or later send for their children to come. Migrant parents push for their children to strive for success at school and to get a job where they won’t have to struggle with money. Migrant parents take a huge risk of coming here so that their children will have a better shot of a bright future that they could only dream of.

Christine turned down her possible future and carrere by going into the work force instead of college for finaincial reasons. As a result of this she ends up being forced to go on foodstamps to be able to afford to feed herself. Debra drops out of college and ends up on welfare. Caroline Payne has a bad job, a bad husband, and bad finances. She is forced to move constantly, the daughter she has to take care of is intellectually disabled and was raped by her father when she was only one-year-old, she has trouble keeping and job and was forced to declare bankruptcy. There are also the illegal immagrents who are prought to America to work. They are forced to work in factories or at farms for much less than the value of their work is worth, for fear of being caught and deported back to their country. Their employers take advantage of this and normally offer them no health care or benefits, underpay and overwork them, and expose them to dangerous working condinitons. In some of these factories quantity is valued over quality and workers have day long shifts creating their product so line the pockets of the factory owners who are taking advantage of them. Wicked farming companies can force farmers to work to keep their families alive, even if their children and wives are underfed and uneducated, in coditions filled with dangerous farming chemicals and equipment as well. Mt. Olive Pickle

Undocumented families face immense pressure getting accustomed to the new land. Many parents want to adhere to their traditional way of life, but due to the new atmosphere, they are forced to assimilate into the American culture with the hopes of becoming socially accepted. The striving force behind the American dream, as mentioned earlier, is to achieve a better life. To accomplish this, undocumented immigrants must be able attain a job and provide the basic needs and essentials of life for their family. In doing so, so many undocumented individuals experience harsh realities due to the lack of legal protection.

The Joads arrive in California and are disappointed when they realize that there aren’t as many opportunities as they had hoped for. Floyd goes on to explain just why that is. Since many of the migrant workers are disorganized and don’t put any emphasis on improving their pay, they allow owners to continue to take advantage of them leaving them powerless. By fighting with each other they naturally weed out a few workers to the owner’s benefit. The competition between the workers permits owners to worsen working conditions and provide lower wages. At this point, the best thing for the workers to do is ban together and

Some only come for work and others come to stay, however, many are not legally citizens. Those who only come for work, often don’t have a proper work visa. This gives employers an advantage because anything the farm workers do wrong could potentially destroy their chances of working in the United States again. Employers could have them turned in to the government causing them to be deported. They could also make life miserable on the farm for them by working them longer hours, not feeding them the proper amount of food, and even beating them. Farm workers also have trouble speaking out because of their status and workers also have trouble traveling off the farms. They fear they will be caught by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Workers are afraid of getting caught because they “feel a sense of accomplishment”. They feel accomplished because they are being able to send their kids to school, feed their families, buy houses, and they are producing food for people all around the world to eat. Employers of migrant farm workers must give permission to their workers to leave the farm, especially if they want to travel out of state. They don’t have much access or connections with the public. A movement was started to try and end the poor treatment of migrant farm workers (Altman

The migrant workers were mostly Hispanic or Mexican Americans that would come to the U.S for work. Most migrant workers would work on farms. All the migrant workers that came to the U.S would either get a job or wouldn’t get job. The Great Depression in the 1930s hit Mexican immigrants/migrant workers especially hard. Along with the job crisis and food shortages that had affected all workers in the U.S. Hispanic and Mexican Americans had to face an additional threat. The threat of deportation. As the crisis of unemployment grew throughout the U.S. Hostility to immigrant workers had grew. The government began a program of repatriating immigrants back to Mexico. The Immigrants were offered free train rides to Mexico, some even had went voluntarily.

According to Anderson in “Illegal Immigration: Causes, Methods, and Effects”, immigrants come to America from neighboring countries especially Mexico to benefit from economic, educational and other opportunities that being a resident of America provides. When compared to Mexico, a typical worker earns $118 per week as compared to America where same Latino worker earns $537 per week. These numbers are significant push for people to cross borders from Mexico to America. (46)