Migrant workers are like um he basically worked 30 365 days a year um maybe went
migrants you know U Indian migrant workers who were the first you know the Kies but it was the Kies in fact it was
There's this migrant mother image of her and her child.
These were largely migrant working men and in my fantasies, they look like this.
And the migrant stories come back kind of resounding and echoing and they loom large in people's minds.
And there were lots of migrant workers in the surrounding towns.
So that could be trafficked or migrant people, many of them are illiterate, so it's great to get that information about
law and in opportunity and the migrant experience that we have and the pluralism of America to say nothing of the extraordinary resources we have both natural and man-made.
And we did performances for the construction workers the migrant construction workers, and their families who live there.
was going to bring in tens of thousands of migrant workers into a town of about 30,000 people.
There's also a stigma among the urban population that migrants and migrant children are sort of lower quality, than the urban population.
Having been raised by parents in-in a migrant jet family, Jose believes that all children despite family challenges should have the same educational opportunities he
As was mentioned I come from a typical migrant farm working family.
And more and more of these young girls and the children of migrant workers are becoming stateless.
And there was a lot of news in China a couple years back that migrant salaries had risen quickly and they're now within about $20 to $30 of a college graduate starting salary.
One is that a lot of cities who offered urban benefits to the migrant population, they went bankrupt pretty quickly because they just didn't have the capacity to offer benefits
Because-- you know, I remember going to babysit for the children of migrant farm workers who, in Chicago, you know, they would come up from Mexico,
The first, I think I have to give thanks to my migrant farm working background because I remember as a kid when we used to go work in the fields we used to go in the darkness
know, many of them actually a number of the students that I met were migrant farm workers or the children migrant farm workers.
And so as a result of this, urban China really couldn't function without migrant labor.
In some cities, like in Shanghai, 40% of the population is migrant population.
In my book, I don't write about factory workers because, really, they are something of a migrant subculture.
Bring in sort of a migrant force to farm the land and then stay away.
I was born here in the States and-and so you would say, "Well, what's a typical migrant farm working family?"
And-and-and-and so I remember, I remember that-that-that one thing that my parents did different than what a typical migrant farm working family was in spite of their third
it in part by workers from the countryside going to the cities, working to, the workers of this economic boom have largely been migrant workers going to factory towns and sending
You know volunteer with Latino students, migrant students.