Desperate. They were ripe for exploitation.
Life in California for Dust Bowl refugees was often difficult. Many faced discrimination and lived in makeshift camps called "Hoovervilles." They worked as migrant laborers in agriculture, facing poor pay and harsh working conditions. Despite these challenges, some were able to rebuild their lives and establish new opportunities in California.
Life for refuges is generally awful
The 1930s was the Great Depression. Jobs were hard to find. Food was scarce because of the dustbowl. Banks were unstable.
California Life. Like life in California.
Dorothea Lange was one of a group of photographers hired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration to document the effects of the Great Depression in general and the Dustbowl in particular during the 1930s. He photos were published, especially in a spread in "Life" magazine to show the people of the US how bad things were in the Midwest and called attention to the plight of families who'd lost their farms and homes and were fleeing the Dustbowl for places like California in search of work.
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Countries like Germany, UK accepts christian refugees. But not limited to them only.
The life for migrant workers in California was not easy. They were commonly subjected to heavy workloads and meagre pay rates.
because california is a beatiful place and people like to live in california by a earthquake zonw
Because they don't like war
Anything helped but nothing worked, the dustbowl was misery and felt like the end of the earth for the people that lived through it
If you are looking for The dustbowl it is a giant duststorm covering the great plains. It started around '33 with a long drought and unending wind. It blew for ten years taking most of the topsoil with it until the plains looked more like the Sahara than farmland. No plants or animals or rain. The Okies left their foreclosed farms and went to the promised land in California to start a new life. A dustbowl is sorta like a sand storm but it's shaped like a tornado.
Jewish physicist who was among the 100,000 Jewish refugees accepted by the US; the US primarily accepted refugees of exceptional ability like him