This article assesses the relative importance of several factors believed to reduce the likelihood of health insurance coverage among working Latinos in California, including cost, immigration history, availability of insurance, beliefs about insurance, and beliefs about health and health care. According to a survey of 1,000 randomly selected…

TEXAS HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF MIGRANT WORKERS OF ANY STATE. MIGRATION BEGINS IN MARCH AND ENDS BY DECEMBER. THE PRINCIPAL COUNTIES WHERE MIGRANTS ARE SEASONALLY EMPLOYED, AND THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYED WORKERS, ARE DEPICTED. LOW BASIC EDUCATION LEVELS, LANGUAGE PROBLEMS, AND LOW ECONOMIC LEVELS ARE FACTORS THAT INDICATE THE NEED TO FORMULATE…

The Portillo family, who were undocumented workers, were helped to get legal temporary alien status so that their son could be placed in a school for the mentally disabled. (NQ)

To help students increase their knowledge and understanding of the plight of the migrant, suggested teaching strategies and materials for considering migrants in the social studies are provided. (SM)

The author describes a counseling method aimed at getting through the cultural shells of elementary migrant students with the purpose of always finding pearls. (Author)

STATEMENTS OF FACTS AND IMPRESSIONS GAINED BY TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS INVOLVED IN COLORADO'S SPECIAL TERMS FOR MIGRATORY CHILDREN ARE COMPILED. TWO FACTS STAND OUT IN ALL THE REPORTS. ONE IS THE GREAT NEED FOR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF ALL WHO WORK WITH MIGRANT CHILDREN, THE SECOND IS THE DIFFICULTY IN DEVELOPING COMPREHENSION AND…

This document discusses the training of teachers of migrant workers' children and outlines a program of basic and specialized training for the teacher. Part 1, an introduction, discusses some trends in the demand for foreign workers in western Europe and problems in education relating to these trends. Part 2 examines teacher education in the host…

Discusses the problems of poverty, poor health, exploitation, and lack of educational opportunities faced by Mexican American migrant agricultural workers. (Author/GC)

A discussion of the multiple problems confronting immigrant laborers to Western Europe in terms of acculturative pressures, housing difficulties, and social integration. Special attention is devoted to the dilemma of how best to educate their bicultural children. (EH)

The educational problems of the migrant worker, isolated from his home and the victim of social prejudice, are receiving attention from UNESCO. (JH)

This paper discusses the migrant adolescent in Australia; specifically, the migrant of European origin, both newly arrived and Australian-born. The migrant experience can be perceived as being a dynamic psychosocial process that is uniquely experienced by each individual. In this process, the migrant adolescent has to deal simultaneously with two…

THE MAJORITY OF TEXAS MIGRANTS LIVE IN SOUTH TEXAS AND APPROXIMATELY 95 PERCENT OF THEM ARE OF MEXICAN EXTRACTION. MOST OF THE OTHER FIVE PERCENT ARE EAST TEXAS NEGROES. THE MECHANIZATION OF COTTON HARVESTING AND THE EXPIRATION OF THE "BRACERO PROGRAM" IN 1964 HAVE CAUSED MORE TEXAS MIGRANTS TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE OF THE STATE. DURING 1964,…

THE CALENDAR YEAR 1966 WAS THE SECOND FULL YEAR IN WHICH NO BRACEROS WERE IMPORTED FROM MEXICO. CRITICAL LABOR SHORTAGES OCCURRED IN SOME AREAS, HOWEVER, THE DOMESTIC LABOR SUPPLY BECAME MORE STABLE AND FEWER PROBLEMS WERE EXPERIENCED THAN IN 1965. THE MAJORITY OF TEXAS MIGRANTS LIVE IN SOUTH TEXAS AND APPROXIMATELY 95 PERCENT OF THEM ARE OF…

THE CALENDAR YEAR 1965 WAS THE FIRST FULL YEAR IN WHICH NO BRACEROS WERE IMPORTED FROM MEXICO. CROP LOSSES OCCURRED IN SOME AREAS OF THE COUNTRY DUE TO LABOR SHORTAGES, HOWEVER, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS STATE THAT THESE SHORTAGES CAN BE AVOIDED IN THE FUTURE. THE MAJORITY OF TEXAS MIGRANTS LIVE IN SOUTH TEXAS AND APPROXIMATELY 95 PERCENT OF THEM ARE…