migrant labor

A twelve-year-old Mexican crosses the border illegally to join his father in California.

Story of a migrant worker's family, and of nine-year-old Roosevelt's dream of living in one place and getting to "belong.".

Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.

Janey and her family settle in a real home after spending years as migratory workers.

Presents several intertwined stories of a family of Mexican American farm workers as they move from camp to camp, adding members to their family along the way.

Jim Nolan, a new member of the Communist Party, struggles to keep a cool head when he leads nine hundred migratory workers in a strike against landowners in California's apple country.

Biography of the Mexican-American labor activist who organized and led the braceros, or migrant farm workers, in their struggle for better working conditions.

Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith, hope, and back-breaking work.

While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.

Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family is happily making sticky rice balls, listening to firecrackers, and watching the dragon dance in the streets below. Papa makes repairs to the house, and hides a lucky coin for Maomao to find. But all too soon it is time for Papa to go away again. This poignant tale shows how a family's love is strong enough to endure over time and distance.