Sentences with phrase «of migrant farm workers»

Financed by the U.S. Education Department, the report is based on a three - year ethnographic study of the children of migrant farm workers in nine states.

Halvorssen produced The Sugar Babies, [68] a film about human trafficking in the Dominican Republic and the plight of its migrant farm workers.

Golden, earth - toned colors and wide, flowing brush strokes lend depth and honesty to the history and struggle of migrant farm workers in California.

After six days of evidence, including testimony by several expert witnesses, the HRTO concluded that the exclusion of migrant farm workers from the mandatory inquest requirement in the Act does not result in substantive inequality.

Accordingly, the HRTO decided that the exclusion of migrant farm workers from the mandatory inquest requirement does not result in substantive inequality.

Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez was born in California, into a family of migrant farm workers.

For example, if one of my colleagues studying lead levels in the blood of migrant farm workers discovers, in the course of their lab tests, a child with toxic levels of lead, the ruling precludes them from telling the family that their child should see a doctor.

She was accepted in 2002, and two months before starting classes in 2003, she married Oscar Martinez, a descendent of migrant farm workers whom she'd known in an honors math class in junior high in 1992, lost touch with, and then bumped into at a party in 2000.

«As the proud son of migrant farm workers, I know the sacrifices my parents made so that I could be the first in our family to go to college and my future would be one full of opportunity,» he remarked.

The region also has a large number of migrant farm workers and political refugees from Eastern Europe who have depended on the library system to adapt to American life.

The portrait and landscape photographic series documents the lives of migrant farm workers throughout South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

Food Justice Southern New Jersey has a large population of migrant farm workers, and for 20 years CATA has provided workers with information about pesticides, how to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals in the workplace, and general safety training.

This is an important step towards full recognition of the freedom of association of migrant farm workers.

The Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreation Center was born out of tragedy in 1949, when a house fire killed the untended children of migrant farm workers.

However, a little reflection on the plight of the migrant farm workers (life expectancy 49, annual income for a family of four $ 2,400, poisoning from pesticide in 15 of every 100 workers, death from T.B. and other infectious diseases 260 percent higher than the national average, infant and maternal mortality 125 percent higher, and not even toilets or drinking water in the fields) makes one reluctant to head for the comfort of the car and home.

Several were children of migrant farm workers that only attended this school during the planting and / or...

Weppner began her career 44 years ago, teaching kindergarten to recent immigrant students, including the children of migrant farm workers, who had previously not been allowed to attend public schools in Texas.

I started my career 44 years ago teaching kindergarten to recent immigrant students, including the children of migrant farm workers, who had previously not been allowed to attend public schools in Texas.

Artist Statement «I often listened to NPR during working and driving, and one time there was a story about the plight of migrant farm workers: The really hard work they have...