Identifying Migrant Families Module 4 Level 1 Locating Migrant Families and Youth

Materials Module 4 Level 1 Outline Handouts, as needed Pen or pencil Highlighters Post-its

Level 1: Locating Migrant Families and Youth Goal The recruiter will know how to determine where migrant families and youth live and work.

Objectives Participants will be able to: Use appropriate vocabulary when discussing migrant moves and qualifying work. Describe the types of qualifying seasonal and temporary employment that migrant families seek. Identify key areas where migrant families and youth live and work. Level 1: Locating Migrant Families and Youth

What’s Missing? Migrant Streams Types of Qualifying Work Locating Migrant Families and Youth Assessment One for You, One for Me Agenda: Level 1

What’s Missing? Work with a partner. Complete the What’s Missing activity in your Outline. You have ten minutes.

What’s Missing? Word Bank 1.Agricultural work 2.Fishing work 3.Follow-the-crop migrants 4.Home base 5.Migrant streams 6.Out-of-school youth 7.Send and receive 8.Settled out

What’s Missing? 1. _____________ are under the age of 22, have dropped out of school, and may be working on a GED outside of a K-12 institution, or may be “here-to-work” only.

What’s Missing? 2. A family may travel from their _____________ each year to seek migrant work elsewhere.

What’s Missing? Home Base: A city/town the family considers home for much of the year.

What’s Missing? 3. A town, city, or state may _________________ migrant workers. A location may either send or receive migrant workers. Send refers to the location the worker left from to find work. Receive refers to the location the worker moved into to find work.

What’s Missing? South Carolina: receiving state Florida: sending state Sending and Receiving States

What’s Missing? 4. Migrant workers were believed to follow one of three distinct patterns of migration, commonly known as ___________________.

What’s Missing? Mid-continent Stream Traditional Migrant Streams Eastern Stream West Coast Stream

What’s Missing? 5. A worker who travels at least 75 miles to “multiple U.S. farm locations” over a 12-month period in order to work is said to be a _________________. Department of Labor, "The National Agricultural Workers Survey." July 06,

What’s Missing? Follow-The-Crop: travels at least 75 miles to “multiple U.S. farm locations” over a 12-month period in order to work

What’s Missing? 6. When a migrant family has _________, or stopped migrating and become permanently established in an area, they may become more involved in a community.

What’s Missing? 7. Migrant workers can qualify for either ______________- the production or initial processing of crops, dairy products, poultry or livestock; or ______________- the catching or initial processing of fish or shellfish, or the raising or harvesting of fish or shellfish at fish farms.

What’s Missing? 8. Complete the graphic organizer.

What’s Missing? Word Bank 1.agricultural work 2.fishing work 3.follow-the-crop migrants 4.home base 5.migrant streams 6.out-of-school youth 7.send and receive 8.settled out

Migrant Streams- Traditional

Migrant Streams - Current

Types of Qualifying Work Repairing a fence Harvesting Christmas trees Debeaking chickens Slaughtering pigs Milking cows Packaging shrimp Temporary Trapping lobsters Planting potatoes Cultivating corn Thinning sugar beets Detasseling corn Planting seeds for hay Canning tomatoes Seasonal

Temporary Employment Considered temporary if less than 12 months. Worker or employer can provide information. May wish to obtain lists of temporary and seasonal work. Final determination of work as temporary rests with state migrant department.

Seasonal or Temporary? Get one index card per person. Write “seasonal” on one side; “temporary” on the other. Talk with your partner. Show your card when asked.

Seasonal or Temporary? seasonal clearing land to plant sorghum

Seasonal or Temporary? drying herbs seasonal

Seasonal or Temporary? sizing shrimp temporary

Seasonal or Temporary? temporary building a barn

Seasonal or Temporary? cutting meat temporary

Seasonal or Temporary? picking peaches seasonal

Locating Migrant Families and Youth Start at your assigned question. Record as many responses as possible. Move to the next question when signaled.

Locating Migrant Families and Youth Where might you find migrant families and youth?

Locating Migrant Families and Youth OSY Unique needs Worksite recruitment

Locating Migrant Families and Youth How would you communicate information about the MEP at these locations?

Locating Migrant Families and Youth Why is it difficult for recruiters to locate migrant families and youth?

Wrap-up “To find local migrant farm workers, I follow the port-a-john trucks to the fields and post flyers about the program on the inside of the doors.”

Please complete the assessment independently. When all participants are done, discuss answers with a partner; revise answers if needed. We will review as a whole group and you will grade your own. Level 1 Assessment

Think about everything we learned today. What’s the one main point you would like other migrant recruiters to know? One thing, just one thing...