Children of Migrant Farmworkers: Life in Lenawee County Michigan
Author: Rangarajan, Suresh
Date Published: 2003
Photo essay that looks at the children of migrant farmworkers in Lenawee County Michigan. The author discusses how although health care and social services were combined in town, education of migrant children was kept relatively separate. Migrant children attend school when resident children are out on summer holiday. For most county residents and farmers, the situation of separate or distant existences is workable based on the constant demand for labor on the farms during every day of the growing season. However, the situation does not work for children of migrant farmworkers. The author believe that their constant seasonal displacement and lack of integration with residents community children will simply relegate them to the next generation of migrant farmworkers. His hope is that by focusing this photo essay on migrant farmworker children and highlighting a few organizations that are trying to improve their life chances, we as a society that enjoys the fruit and vegetables of the migrant communities' labor can continue to think of ways of opening up doors of opportunity for these children in the future.
Date Published: 2003
Photo essay that looks at the children of migrant farmworkers in Lenawee County Michigan. The author discusses how although health care and social services were combined in town, education of migrant children was kept relatively separate. Migrant children attend school when resident children are out on summer holiday. For most county residents and farmers, the situation of separate or distant existences is workable based on the constant demand for labor on the farms during every day of the growing season. However, the situation does not work for children of migrant farmworkers. The author believe that their constant seasonal displacement and lack of integration with residents community children will simply relegate them to the next generation of migrant farmworkers. His hope is that by focusing this photo essay on migrant farmworker children and highlighting a few organizations that are trying to improve their life chances, we as a society that enjoys the fruit and vegetables of the migrant communities' labor can continue to think of ways of opening up doors of opportunity for these children in the future.
