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Summary Of Farmworker Children Uprooted By California Rules
“Farmworker Children Uprooted by California Rules” by Martha Mendoza examines the affects of migrant working on the children of Californian agricultural laborers. For instance, a Californian law that entails labor workers and their families must move at least 50 miles away from the federal labor camps. According to a worker at a department in California, the state Department of Housing and Community Development is not aware “of families being in jams or having a problem with moving away” due to the law, contrary to what Claudia, a child of a migrant worker, implies (Stuckey qtd. in Mendoza). In addition, the children of migrant workers are not getting the best education. Notably, all but ten percent of the teens living in seasonal housing drop

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