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Re: Image comments for Apply Today
Posted by: John_Stone
Date: 17/04/2006 08:57PM
Dr. Ernesto Galarza, who interviewed this worker, is a quiet, scholarly man, and a long-time observer of migrant America. He found Mexican workers in California in some strange camps: a storage shed, a chick hatchery, a small building with boarded-up windows, a dairy barn, a stable, tents in various stages of wear and tear, abandoned WWII barracks, and tumble-down Quonset huts.
Migrant workers are often housed with livestock [ =Avian/animal flu watchers take note= -ed.] A Mexican worker in California described his camp this way:
"We are installed in a barn which was used for the cows when we moved in. You have to slide the big door and go in and out same as the cows. The cracks between the wall planks are about eight or ten centimeters wide. This makes very good ventilation for the cattle but it allows the wind to pass over our bunks at night ... It is strong and fresh cow smell. It is necessary to use much Flit and the smell of this chemical also affronts us."
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