Farmworker

The need to make your beliefs heard can become part of your life and is a recognizable time to speak up. These opportunities to speak up reflect on what you trust in and are passionate about. Melinda could have used an opportunity similar to this in an effort to make her beliefs heard. When writing a speech for extra credit, the teacher, Mr. Neck, required Melinda to orally present it. She believed passionately that she should not be forced to present her speech orally and fight for her rights…

$40 million dollars lost. This is the amount of estimated losses after a group of migrant workers in San Quentin, California went on strike for two weeks. (Bacon 1) The workers in this area were fed up with the harsh living conditions, long work hours, and low wages. One migrant worker said “My children didn’t even know me because I would go to sleep as soon as I came home” (Bacon 3). This is the sad reality that many migrant workers face because of growers drive to cut the cost of producing…

amount of time on work and only get a few salary from the farm. The jobs and the shelters that they offered to the workers make a chump out of workers. Farmworkers are going to dismissed if they express feelings of workers’ rights to the visited group, a kind of disguised layoffs. Feel carefree when they see the visitors is the rights that farmworkers think that they need to assert.…

misunderstood multilayered linguistic barrier, the physician concluded that he has no past medical history’’ (Holmes 142). Only if they had the right translator there would have not any complications. In the towns where there is abundance of migrant farmworkers, they should at least three translators that speak the patient’s language. Even though the clinics tries to avoid any ethnocentric norms and…

Health care refers to maintained of mental and physical health. America has a wide range health care coverage in place for citizens to have a decent health. The health care is provided through a system to the citizen and even migrants. Yet, through this system of health care, migrants have the most issue with being provided with accurate care from doctors. In Fresh Fruit and Broken Bodies, the author Seth Holmes, noticed a lack care in the health care system and recognized it as an issue for…

The topic I chose for my research project is migrant workers. The importance of my topic migrant workers was working to survive and to maintain the family. The first subtopic for my topic is jobs.They found better jobs so they could have a un-harsh living condition."And finally, thousands of other immigrant workers traveled less clear paths throughout dozens of states in search of work."It was hard for them to live their life.It changed the way they wanted to live as a migrant worker." "Migrant…

issue. The fatality rate for agricultural workers was 7 times higher than the fatality rate for all workers in private industry; agricultural workers had a fatality rate of 24.9 deaths per 100,000, while the fatality rate for all workers was 3.5. Farmworkers are exposed to numerous safety,…

Our founding fathers created the Constitution to be changed and ratified. They knew that different times would call for different measures in government and the citizens. The Civil Rights movement was a time in American history that revolutionist changed the constitution to favor the minorities that were being treated poorly. Several amendments were put into place during this time for the minorities. The civil rights movement is when the minorities fought for the freedoms that they believed they…

Have you ever felt like the conditions of working weren’t being fair? Ever felt like after doing all the work, it wasn’t as good to someone else? Cesar Estrada Chavez wanted to change that for all farm workers everywhere. Born in Yuma, Arizona, second child to parents Libardo and Juan Estrada Chavez. Both his parent worked in the fields that were over a 100 acres long. However, the chavez family lost its land, when the Great Depression came around. Like other people, they became of the migrant…

Music is an important cultural aspect of everyday life of people living in northern Mexico and Mexican-Americans within the southern United States. One such type of music that is very popular among these people is cumbia, which is a dance-oriented music style originating from afro-Cuban roots that has spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans settle. Cumbia has grown from its origins across northern Mexico and the southern United States and plays in important role in the…