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Radical organization of space turns this lush orchard into a social cross-section of American agriculture. Four migrant workers are on ladders picking cherries, the one at left positioned to appear behind bars. A farmer or crew chief drives a tractor…

During the time of the Geneseo Migrant Center, this farm located near Gainesville, NY was one of Wyoming County's group of major potato producers. The scale of that operation is suggested by this photograph showing rows of filled bags, at the time…

This poem, by Ophelia Bailey, shares her wishes that she could do more with her life like going to school to be a nurse or teacher. Bailey states that she wants to go into those occupations so that she can help people no matter their age or other…

This poem by Charlie Jr. Spinks speaks about how babies do not have to worry or take care of themselves while adults do. Spinks states how they sometimes wish to be a baby so they wouldn't have to stress about anything and their life would be easier.…

This program was created for a 1991 exhibition whose premise was quite formalist: that there are four types of passages "common to all migrant people": through historical time, through space, through seasons of nature, and through cycles of life.…

An envelope addressed to Sylvia Kelly and the Geneseo Migrant Center from New York City has two different colored handwritten quotes on top of it. Judging from its postmark, we can speculate it dates to around 2003 and may have been Kelly jotting…

A newspaper article written by Daily News tells the story about how migrant workers who pick potatoes in Wyoming Country may be replaced by machines. The paper then goes on to state just how dangerous migrant workers' jobs are and how it is probably…

This poem written in July 2002 by Jose Coyote Pérez explains migrant farming in a contrasting way. Pérez expresses that he feels like he is nature/the earth because of his good work always being taken advantage of. "Human beings are killing me/even…

This photograph exposes the harsh realities of what being a migrant farm worker is. It is unknown whether or not this photo was stage, yet, it still exposes the harsh realities of being a migrant farm worker. The unknown man in the photograph sits…

This poem, written by Felix Hipolito demonstrates the life that a migrant farm worker has. The first stanza of the poem begins with Hipolito getting to work and cutting tomatoes and then continuing to do so for the rest of her workday. From this…