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Missing school is a given for children of migrant farmworkers

  • Written by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Assistant Professor of Film, Media, & Theatre, Georgia State University
Missing school is a given for children of migrant farmworkersLuis Miguel, son of migrant farmworkers in California, catches up on school work by attending Cyber High.Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, CC BY

In the summer of his junior year, Luis Miguel was struggling to stay in high school. He and his family of four – who work various agricultural jobs from picking blueberries and cherries to pruning grapes and...

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