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Migrant
farmworkers
travel
to
North
Carolina
to
perform
a
variety
of
agricultural
jobs,
depending
upon
the
growing
and
harvesting
seasons.
They
may
stay
a
short
while
to
harvest
cucumbers
in
the
spring
or
spend
the
summer
harvesting
tobacco.
Others
arrive
in
early
fall
to
harvest
apples
or
sweet
potatoes.
Many
follow
the
migrant
stream
from
Florida,
Texas
and
Mexico.
Others
travel
from
the
north
from
places
such
as
New
Jersey,
Delaware
and
Maryland. They
establish
temporary
residency,
often
living in migrant labor camps controlled by a crew leader or employer, and
then move on to another region when the work is over. ‘Migrant’ therefore
refers to the transitory nature of the employment and not to race or
ethnicity. According to a recent Migrant Health study, there are
approximately 88,000 migrant farmworkers and their dependents living in
North Carolina each year (1).
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