The 1967-68 Annual Evaluation Report of the New York State Program for Migrant Children discusses program effectiveness and innovative projects (Migrant Aide Training Program, Outdoor Education, and Center for Migrant Studies). Local and state agencies active in the welfare and education of migrant workers are mentioned. The difficulty of…

Seventy-two Turkish female immigrants reported problems created by the difficulty of adjusting to Danish culture and society, unemployment and overwork, isolation from other Turks, and sex role changes. Many interviewees reported stress-related illnesses, but overall the Turkish women were strong, resourceful, and determined to solve their…

In December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly approved the new International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. This international agreement broadly defines the rights of migrant workers and their families and offers some means to review the compliance of nations in upholding…

FACT SHEETS PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON THE EDUCATION OF MIGRANT CHILDREN DEAL WITH CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS UNDER FEDERAL LAW, THE STATUS OF SENATE BILLS AFFECTING MIGRATORY LABOR, THE ORIGIN, PURPOSE, AND ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE, A COMPOSITE PORTRAIT OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND CHILDREN, AND AN EXAMPLE OF A NEWSLETTER ON THE EDUCATION OF…

THE HOUSING, WORK, HEALTH, AND SCHOOLING CONDITIONS OF COLORADO MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE PRESENTED. HOUSING CONDITIONS FOR DOMESTIC LABORERS WERE VERY POOR. THERE WERE NO WELLS, NO REFRIGERATION, NO RUNNING WATER, NO STOVES OTHER THAN WOODBURNING OR COAL ONES, AND NO SCREENS ON DOORS AND WINDOWS. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT MIGRANT…

"A Synthesis of Current Research in Migrant Education" has recently been prepared by Dr. James O. Schnur of New York State University College, Geneseo, for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. PREP kit No. 19, based upon this document, covers such areas as characteristics…

The lack of educational opportunities keeps the migrants poor. They need the education and skills to perform better paying agricultural work, or else settle somewhere and do other types of skilled work. (Author/NQ)

Presents a broad, historical overview of federal legislation and agencies created to improve the health situation of migrant farm workers. Focuses particularly on the Migrant Health Act (of 1962) and its subsequent revisions. Asserts that a need still exists for special arrangements for health care for migrants and other seasonal farm workers. (KH)

Describes a tuition assistance program offered by the Manpower Opportunity Program, an OEO-funded agency in Arizona, which provides financial assistance and supportive services for migrant seasonal farm workers and their children to obtain a higher education. (RJ)

The school nurse pilot project described demonstrated the effectiveness of the inservice program in extending the role of the nurse and the soundness of the principle that health services, provided where the people who need them are, when they are there, and in a way they can accept, are highly effective. (Author)

In a paper prepared for the conference on "Migration and Behavioral Deviance, November 4-8, 1968, Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, the author compares "the attitudes of Mexican American adolescents who were born and reared or whose parents were born and reared in the United States with those adolescents who migrated or whose parents migrated…

The Panel concluded that, despite the several billions of dollars spent by the federal government over the past 15 years, American farmworkers and their families still live and work under conditions which are cruel and harsh by any standard. (Author/NQ)

The author presents the feelings of Rickie, the 13-year-old son of migrant agricultural workers, about his transient life and the trauma of frequently changing schools. (SJL)

Asserts that an accurate examination and documentation of Pacific Islanders' educational, health, and socioeconomic status is needed. Argues that until Guamanians and Samoans are recognized as a legitimate responsibility of the United States and are provided governmental programs for educational, economic, and social development, this country is…