Services For Migrant Children in the Health, Social Services, and Education Systems: Executive Summary
Author: Pindus, Nancy M.; O'Reilly, Fran E.
Date Published: 1993
In addition to the many burdens imposed on all children of poverty, migrant children face mobility, language, and cultural barriers. Thus, the children of migrant farmworkers--generally defined as persons who cross a prescribed geographic boundary and stay away from their normal residences overnight to perform farm work for wages--face increased challenges in obtaining education, health, and social services. The purpose of this study is to identify the needs of migrant children, to examine how these needs are being met in selected sites, and to identify successful models of service integration that might be more widely adopted. As our population becomes more multicultural and multiethnic, programs that have been successful in serving migrant farmworkers may be instructive to other service providers and program planners who must learn how to overcome language and cultural barriers.