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We Are Invisible

Author: Forman, Gayle
Date Published: 1999


This article examines the life of a migrant farmworker teen. It discusses the lack of protection for children agricultural workers under labor laws, and how children are often compelled to work out of economic necessity. It discusses the dangers migrant children face, from pesticides to other occupational injuries, and examines how the transient lifestyle disrupts education and dreams of the future.

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