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Migrant Workers During The 1920s-1930s
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Migrant
Workers
1920s and 1930s
During The
By: Jamila-Ashanti Scales and Makayla Sanchez
What is a Migrant Worker?
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- a person who moves from one place to another, in order to find work or better living conditions.
Ethnicity and Race
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Asians
- 1860s-1930s: Farming industry grew during this time frame.
- The U.S. began importing Asian labor as African Americans moved into other industries.
Africans and those of african descent
- 1890s-mid 1900s: constitutional amendments were passed, to desegregate and end slavery
- segregation was maintained under the Jim Crow laws,
- Former slaves and their descendants continued to work in the fields, due to debt with the landowner or by sharecropping.
Mexicans
- 1914-1918: After World War I, migration to the U.S. from Europe declined...
- 1930s: The Dust Bowl and the Great depression...
- 1930s: Filipino workers started to organize, and Mexican workers were brought into the fields as farm workers.
- Due to the Great Depression, more than 500,000 Mexican Americans were deported or pressured to leave during the Mexican Repatriation, and the number of farm workers of Mexican descent decreased.
WHERE did Migrant Workers go for work and which crops did they have?
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Where Did Migrant Workers Come From?
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- Migrant workers came from the great plains, which consisted of:
- Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, part of
- North Dakota, and Montana
Where did they go for work?
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Where are we???
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Is there still a need for migrant workers in 2019?
YES. Farm workers are the key to the U.S. food system, and although our population relies on their labor to put food on the table, these workers lack basic rights, face exploitation and live in fear of reporting abuses.
While farm workers run the hope of being U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, seasonal laborers on special guest worker visas, or undocumented workers, most are affected by immigration status; it is estimated that at least 6 out of 10 of our country’s farm workers are undocumented (Southern Poverty Law Center). The vast majority of workers–78%, according to the most recent National Agricultural Workers Survey– is foreign-born and crossed a border to get here (NAWS, Farmworker Justice).