Migrant+worker+information+for+adults

Online Resources:
This site has very current information about farmworkers in California: [|Rural Migration News]

Sin Fronteras is a campaign to help farmworkers: [|Sin Fronteras]

[|Fight in the Fields]
 * The Fight in the Fields The two-hour documentary premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival in January, aired across the nation on PBS from 1997 through 2000,

*Resources from PBS including historical information and child labor information. en [|NOW on migrant laborers] of families who migrate [|NOW transcript]

Print Resources: Garcia, Diana. (2000). //When Living Was A Labor Camp.// Tucson: University of Arizona Press. This is poetry by a poet who was born in a migrant labor camp recalling memories of her childhood experiences.

Hart, Elva Treviño. (1999). //Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child.// Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press. A “vividly told” autobiography of the author’s life in which she began as a migrant child and ultimately received her master’s degree in computer science/engineering from Stanford University.

Hellman, Judith Adler. (2008). //The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place//. New York: The New Press. Based on in-depth interviews with Mexican workers living in the United States, this book will help to humanize one’s perspective on immigration issues.

López, Ann Aurelia. (2007). //The Farmworkers’ Journey//. Berkeley: University of California Press. This text blends academic research and testimonials from farmworkers.

Martinez, Ruben. (2001). //Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail.// New York: Henry Holt. A highly acclaimed ALA Notable Book, this biography follows the progress of one family from Mexico to California, Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Missouri.

Rothenberg, Daniel. (1998). //With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today.// New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.

Here is an interview from The Atlantic with Ruben Martinez, author of //Crossing Over//: [|interview]