The Endless Quest: Helping America's Farmworkers Book

	List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Sisyphus in the Fields	1
	The Endless Quest to Help Migrants	2
	The Plan of This Book	6
1	Migrant Farm Workers in U.S. Agriculture	11
	The U.S. Food and Fiber System	11
	Farm Labor: A History of Neglect	14
	Farm Labor Themes	19
	Why Migrant Assistance Programs?	22
	Migrants and Immigrants	23
2	The Development of Migrant Assistance Programs	27
	Overcoming Local Neglect	27
	Migrant Education	31
	Migrant Health	47
	Migrant Head Start	53
	Job Training for Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers (JTPA 402)	57
	Other Federal Programs Serving Farm Workers	65
3	Coordination Among Migrant Assistance Programs	85
	State Level Coordination	85
	Coordination at the Local Level	89
	Coordination: Promises and Problems	89
	Do Differences in Definitions Impede Coordination?	90
4	National Coordination	97
	Existing National Coordination Efforts	97
	Evaluation of National-Level Coordination	101
	Toward a Better Coordinating Entity	107
	Promoting Coordination: An Interagency Coordinating Council	121
5	Data and Definitions	131
	Myths and Stereotypes	132
	Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down Estimation Procedures	134
	Three Suggestions for Change	136
	Migrant Numbers and Characteristics	139
	A Serious Strategy for Farm Worker Data	145
	Developing a Uniform Definition	146
	The Elements of a Core Definition	150
6	The Endless Quest in the 1990s	161
	Fruit and Vegetable Consumption	161
	Trade and NAFTA	164
	Needy Migrant Workers?	168
	Whither Farm Worker Assistance?	178
	Appendix A. Recommendation 92-4 of the Administrative Conference of the United States 1 C.F.R. [Section] 305.924 (1993)	183
	Appendix B. Migrant Services Director	187
	Appendix C. Farm Labor Data	199
	Appendix D. Glossary of Acronyms	245
	Index	247