to California
He wrote articles about migrant farmers.
They were farmed by day laborers or migrant workers. Apex
animals eating their crops and hoodlums robbing them
They are called farmers. However sometimes farmers hire temporary workers called farm hands. If the farm hands travel from job to job, they are called migrant workers.
Kenneth Swindell has written: 'The strange farmers of the Gambia' -- subject(s): Peanut industry, Employees, Migrant labor
The "Okies and Arkies" were migrant farmers moving from Oklahoma (Okie), Arkansas (Arkie), and Texas to California during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
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They were farmed by daylaborers or migrant workers
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The migrant workers are called migrant workers because they migrate. To migrate means to move. Migrant workers move from farm to farm, hoping to find work.
"Many temporary agricultural workers are considered migrants as they move from farm to farm to find employment."