Showing posts with label Pobreza y Poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pobreza y Poverty. Show all posts

Mixtec Farmworkers in California

UC Television
Oct 2, 2008

This important interdisciplinary video explores the history; culture, and current social and economic conditions of the Mixtec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. It examines the factors causing ever increasing numbers of Mixtecs to become migrants, living part of each year in California, where they make up between five and ten percent of all farmworkers. Series: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources [3/2001] [Humanities] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 5597]

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Latino/a Immigrants in the US Face Poverty

An undesirable inheritance
U.S.-born kids of illegal immigrants twice as likely as others to face poverty

By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post, December 9, 2009

Eight-year-old Alex picked up a 75-cent can of fruit punch from one of the grocery store's shelves and called excitedly to his mother in Spanish.

"Mami! Can we buy something to drink?"