Hidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship

06/12/2019 31 min
Hidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship

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Episode Synopsis

Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez explains how labor laws helped define the modern boundaries of childhood and citizenship for both internationally and domestically migrant Latinx children working on American farms. Despite the child labor ban supposedly implemented in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act and later laws, legal loopholes have allowed migrant Latinx children to … Continue reading Hidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship

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