Identifying Migrant Families
Locating Migrant Families and Youth
Module 4 Level 1
Materials
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Module 4 Level 1 Outline
Handouts, as needed
Pen or pencil
Highlighters
Post-its
Level 1: Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
Goal
The recruiter will know how to determine
where migrant families and youth live
and work.
Level 1: Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Use appropriate vocabulary when discussing
migrant moves and qualifying work.
• Describe the types of qualifying seasonal
and temporary employment that migrant
families seek.
• Identify key areas where migrant families
and youth live and work.
Agenda: Level 1
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What’s Missing?
Migrant Streams
Types of Qualifying Work
Locating Migrant Families and Youth
Assessment
One for You, One for Me
What’s Missing?
• Work with a partner.
• Complete the What’s Missing activity
in your Outline.
• You have ten minutes.
What’s Missing? Word Bank
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Agricultural work
Fishing work
Follow-the-crop migrants
Home base
Migrant streams
Out-of-school youth
Send and receive
Settled out
What’s Missing?
1. _____________ are under the age
of 22, have dropped out of school,
and may be working on a GED outside
of a K-12 institution, or may be
“here-to-work” only.
What’s Missing?
2. A family may travel from their
_____________ each year to seek
migrant work elsewhere.
What’s Missing?
Home Base: A city/town the family
considers home for much of the year.
What’s Missing?
3. A town, city, or state may
_________________ migrant workers.
• A location may either send or receive migrant
workers.
• Send refers to the location the worker left
from to find work.
• Receive refers to the location the worker
moved into to find work.
What’s Missing?
Sending and Receiving States
South Carolina: receiving state
Florida: sending state
What’s Missing?
4. Migrant workers were believed to
follow one of three distinct patterns
of migration, commonly known as
___________________.
What’s Missing?
Traditional Migrant Streams
West Coast Stream
Eastern Stream
Mid-continent Stream
What’s Missing?
5. A worker who travels at least
75 miles to “multiple U.S. farm
locations” over a 12-month period
in order to work is said to be a
_________________.
Department of Labor, "The National Agricultural Workers Survey." July 06,
2005. http://www.doleta.gov/MSFW/pdf/naws_rpt9.pdf
What’s Missing?
Follow-The-Crop:
travels at least 75
miles to “multiple U.S.
farm locations” over a
12-month period in
order to work
What’s Missing?
6. When a migrant family has _________,
or stopped migrating and become
permanently established in an area,
they may become more involved in a
community.
What’s Missing?
7. Migrant workers can qualify for either
______________- the production or
initial processing of crops, dairy
products, poultry or livestock; or
______________- the catching or initial
processing of fish or shellfish, or the
raising or harvesting of fish or shellfish
at fish farms.
What’s Missing?
8. Complete the graphic organizer.
What’s Missing? Word Bank
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agricultural work
fishing work
follow-the-crop migrants
home base
migrant streams
out-of-school youth
send and receive
settled out
Migrant Streams- Traditional
Migrant Streams - Current
Types of Qualifying Work
Temporary
Seasonal
• Repairing a fence
• Harvesting Christmas
trees
• Debeaking chickens
• Slaughtering pigs
• Milking cows
• Packaging shrimp
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Trapping lobsters
Planting potatoes
Cultivating corn
Thinning sugar beets
Detasseling corn
Planting seeds for hay
Canning tomatoes
Temporary Employment
• Considered temporary if less than
12 months.
• Worker or employer can provide
information.
• May wish to obtain lists of temporary
and seasonal work.
• Final determination of work as temporary
rests with state migrant department.
Seasonal or Temporary?
• Get one index card per person.
• Write “seasonal” on one side;
“temporary” on the other.
• Talk with your partner.
• Show your card when asked.
Seasonal or Temporary?
seasonal
clearing land to plant sorghum
Seasonal or Temporary?
seasonal
drying herbs
Seasonal or Temporary?
temporary
sizing shrimp
Seasonal or Temporary?
temporary
building a barn
Seasonal or Temporary?
temporary
cutting meat
Seasonal or Temporary?
seasonal
picking peaches
Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
• Start at your assigned question.
• Record as many responses as possible.
• Move to the next question when
signaled.
Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
• Where might you find migrant families
and youth?
Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
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Unique needs
Worksite recruitment
Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
How would you communicate information
about the MEP at these locations?
Locating Migrant Families
and Youth
Why is it difficult for recruiters to locate
migrant families and youth?
Wrap-up
“To find local migrant farm workers, I
follow the port-a-john trucks to the fields
and post flyers about the program on the
inside of the doors.”
Level 1 Assessment
• Please complete the assessment
independently.
• When all participants are done, discuss
answers with a partner; revise answers if
needed.
• We will review as a whole group and you
will grade your own.
One thing, just one thing...
• Think about everything we learned today.
• What’s the one main point you would like
other migrant recruiters to know?