migrant labor

A story presented in English and Spanish in which a boy named Panchito worries that he will not get the gift he has been hoping for when his family has to move a few days before Christmas to find work.

Chronicles the May 2006 nationwide protest to bring awareness to U.S. immigration laws and the rights of immigrants.

Portrays the arduous life of a large Mexican American family, residents of the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, who migrate yearly to Minnesota to do farm work.

Arly, an orphan in search of a home and a family, escapes from a brutal migrant labor camp, joins a traveling religious show, and battles a devastating Florida hurricane.

Examines the life of Cesar Chavez, the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions in the mid-twentieth century.

Migratory workers strike against the landowners in California's apple country, led by Jim Nolan.

Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two itinerant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.

Tells the inside story of the life of farmworkers through interviews with the people who harvest crops, as well as growers, labor contractors, union organizers, government investigators, doctors, teachers, and the families of migrant workers.

Discusses the life and work of Cesar Chavez, an American labor leader who organized the farm worker's union, United Farm Workers.

Francisco Jimenez chronicles the experiences he had after his family left Mexico for California when he was just a child.