Migrant Farmers Depression Era -- Life of a MIgrant Farmer during the Great Depression

A day in the life of a migrant farmer (a poor farmer that did not have a stable, reliable job) was pretty close to being the same everyday. The would wake up from the job yesterday and stand on street corners and looked for new jobs that a farmer might need help with doing and hopefully would hire them from that day. Many of these migrant workers were given this name because they were like migratory workers and looked for new jobs everyday. After finding a job, they would assist the farmer in whatever job they needed extra help in. At the end of each day, the migrant workers were paid for minimum wage doing manual labor in agricultural fields (Allen, Glenn. "A Day in the Life of a Migrant Farm Worker." para 1) There was no "pay check" like there is now-a-days. It was hard for these people to find work because during the Great Depression, Mexican and Mexican American migrant farmers were the prime targets to be racially discriminated and removed from from the areas they lived in California ("Dorothea Lange Photos." The History Place). The Mexican and Mexican American migrant workers in the United States were supposedly stealing jobs of the white American citizens ("Picture This: Depression Era." Oakland Museum of California. para 5). Another thing that these migrant workers had problems with other than having to find work is the quality of their housing. According to a California minister's report of a labor camp in Imperial Valley, he said that the "shelters were made of almost every conceivable thing - burlap, canvas, palm branches" ("Picture This: Depression Era." Oakland Museum of California). The walls and roofs were just pieced together with many different types of materials, just enough to hold the shack roofs together. The life of many migrant farmers in the Great Depression is that was very difficult just to make sure they had someplace to sleep and food to eat.