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Mexican Work Camps
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Mexican Work Camps
Coralie Damour & Peyton Wolfe
5/29/2023
What were the conditions of traveling and how did it affect the people?
What were the conditions of traveling and how did it affect the people?
The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Mexican immigrants especially hard. As unemployment swept the U.S., hostility to immigrant workers grew, and the government began a program of repatriating immigrants to Mexico. The goverment offered free train rides to the Immigrants, some even came voulintarily, but many, if not all were tricked into the camps. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants, especially farmworkers, were sent out of the country during the 1930s.
(Some U.S. citizens were deported simply on suspicion of being Mexican.)
The 'trains'portation
The ride their was just as bad as the camp. Since many were forced it was a packed and tight ride.
The 'trains'portation
What were the conditions of the farm camps?
The conditions of the farm camps were terrible but safe. In this picture subtext, this article states, "There's so
much noise at night
because of drunks
outside, when it's
time to wake up in
the morning every-
one is too tired to
even work.". People
are treated badly and have a terrible place
to live as well.
What were the conditions of the farm camps?
Subtext to the Pictures
One of these pictures shows the living conditions of the camps. In the text it says, "Shelters were made of almost every conceivable thing - burlap, canvas, palm branches.". The camp workers didn't care about the quality, any that was usable to build was used.
Subtext to the Pictures
Pictures
Why do people go to farm camps?
People go to farm camps to farm. While some do go for employment most people are forced to go.
Child labor is basically common as seen from this picture. Any where from when the kid can start walking and picking crops is the age where they start farming.
Why do people go to farm camps?
Mexico's minium work starting age is 15, but most of these workers start working around the age of 11. Some even start at 5-9 years old.
This child is only 9 years old.
Child Labor
According to LA Times these ages are when the workers started farming:
Started working at 4
Child Labor
"Farmworkers typically earn $14 a day or less."
(LA Times)
Started working at 7
Shoutout to Google
Links and Resources:
Links and Resources
“Depression and the Struggle for Survival : Mexican : Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History : Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress : Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/mexican/depression-and-the-struggle-for-survival/. Accessed 24 May 2023.
Marosi, Richard. “Product of Mexico: Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables.” Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2014, graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/.
California, Oakland Museum of. “Depression Era: 1930s: Repatriation for Mexican & Filipino Farm Workers.” Depression Era: 1930s: Repatriation for Mexican & Filipino Farm Workers | Picture This, picturethis.museumca.org/timeline/depression-era-1930s/migrant-farm-workers/info. Accessed 25 May 2023.
“Depression and the Struggle for Survival : Mexican : Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History : Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress : Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/mexican/depression-and-the-struggle-for-survival/. Accessed 24 May 2023.