Migrant Citizenship – Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Prog…

Migrant CitizenshipRace, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program\nAuthor(s): Vernica Martnez-Matsuda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512826920, 978-1512826920\nSynopsis\nAn examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served\n Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee [url] farmworkers the necessary protections of sanitary housing, medical attention, and fair labor standards. The political discourse on farmworkers' rights is dominated by the view that migrant workers are not entitled to better protections because they are \""noncitizens,\"" as either immigrants or transients. Between 1935 and 1946, however, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) intervened dramatically on behalf of migrant families to expand the principles of American democracy, advance migrants' civil rights, an.