So the exemption has been narrowed since 1938, but it still exists. When the 1938 child labor ban was passed, it included really strict prohibitions for certain sites of work, mainly manufacturing and mining, but they also included an exemption for agriculture that still exists to this day. And they ended up working in places as diverse as railroads, mines, factories, domestic service and agriculture. Among these immigrants who participated in this large-scale migration were children, and also, of course, eventually the children of immigrants. experienced large-scale migration from places like Europe and Mexico and even Asia, in spite of exclusionary legislation that was meant to bar their entry. I’m going to take us all the way back to the late 19th century when the U.S. Yes, exploitative migrant child labor is a problem in the United States.
Is exploitative migrant child labor a problem in the U.S. So unless they encountered a person in a position of authority, say like a border patrol agent, or some other kind of law enforcement authority, their voices are pretty scattered in the historical record. And of course, they also had to cross the border clandestinely and avoid detection for their own survival. They almost never left behind their own sources. It’s been extraordinarily difficult to uncover the stories of these kids, certainly not only because of the pushback, but also because the groups of people that I study - poor, migrant, Mexican and Central American youth. I’ve encountered a lot of pushback in the research stage of this project.
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These presumptions aren’t just harbored by professional historians, but they’re harbored by the professionals who control the research collections that historians go into to even be able to uncover these kinds of histories and make these claims. banned child labor in 1938, that they didn’t work. There’s this presumption in the historical literature that children didn’t migrate in the past, and that after the U.S. Most of what professional historians know about the history of migration from Mexico and Central America largely concerns adults. How difficult has it been to uncover this part of U.S.
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Full Interview with Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez.
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