This article examines research findings from a study of Latina/o farmworker migrant students who have succeeded in gaining access to a college education at a large southern university. Findings reveal students with a strong Latina/o or bicultural identity who attend college seeking a better life, a career path, or to make their family proud.…

The second volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers. An edited translation of the 2009 volume of the Chinese-language "Blue Book of…

In the context of areas that have little prospect in the medium term of providing even minimal livelihoods locally for their overwhelming poor and increasingly migration-dependent rural populations, what does education for sustainable development (ESD) mean? Do efforts to qualitatively improve migration offer a viable strategy for reducing poverty…

Purpose: This viewpoint paper aims to assess a curriculum response within a specific vocational sector, hospitality, driven by the recent surge in intra EU labour migration and the ensuing increase in workplace cultural diversity. Design/methodology/approach: The paper identifies an appropriate curriculum response by assessing the industry…

In December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly approved the new International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. This international agreement broadly defines the rights of migrant workers and their families and offers some means to review the compliance of nations in upholding…

This exhibit guide (in Spanish, with translation in English printed on adjoining columns on each page), describes an exhibition of folk art by Mexican migrant farmworkers presented by thre Folk Arts Program of the BOCES Geneseo Migrant Center. The exhibit is divided into four major themes that farmworkers presented by the BOCES Geneseo Migrant…

Program rationale, goals, and strategies are outlined in this description of Arizona-based centers which trained migrant workers in the use of microcomputers for business and clerical applications. Topics include the need to create new jobs for displaced farm workers, the assets farm workers bring to the business world, the training-related…

A review of five recent books indicates that the migration of labor remains, on balance, a dynamic force for human betterment and economic prosperity. (Author)

FACT SHEETS PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON THE EDUCATION OF MIGRANT CHILDREN DEAL WITH CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS UNDER FEDERAL LAW, THE STATUS OF SENATE BILLS AFFECTING MIGRATORY LABOR, THE ORIGIN, PURPOSE, AND ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE, A COMPOSITE PORTRAIT OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND CHILDREN, AND AN EXAMPLE OF A NEWSLETTER ON THE EDUCATION OF…

REGIONAL CONFERENCES ON SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR MIGRATORY CHILDREN WERE CONDUCTED BETWEEN JUNE 23 AND 30, 1966, IN WASHINGTON D.C., DENVER, AND SAN FRANCISCO. THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETINGS WAS TO DISCUSS THE PROVISIONS OF THE PENDING MIGRANT AMENDMENT TO TITLE I OF P.L. 89-10, THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965, AND…

The hourly wages of migrants in Wayne County, New York in 1968 were higher than state or Federal legal requirements. However, for many migrant workers, the irregularity of migrant employment made it less profitable over the harvest than a steady job at the lower legal rates. Moreover, a person who could be employed at a steady job as a…

Due to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's definition of a farm as an "economic unit which produces at least $1,000 worth of agricultural products a year", more than 570,000 farms were eliminated from the 1975 agricultural census. In addition, over 12,000 farms went out of business, continuing a trend begun in 1940. Although American food prices…

The 1977 conference of the National Association of Farmworker Organizations (NAFO) centered on the broad spectrum of administrative and legislative areas affecting farmworkers that need policy decisions and directions: labor, immigration, education, health, data/census, hunger/nutrition, rural development, and energy. The forums formulated…

Presents a broad, historical overview of federal legislation and agencies created to improve the health situation of migrant farm workers. Focuses particularly on the Migrant Health Act (of 1962) and its subsequent revisions. Asserts that a need still exists for special arrangements for health care for migrants and other seasonal farm workers. (KH)

Revision of paper presented at Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society, Akron, Ohio, 30 April, 1-2 May 1970. (NQ)