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The Migrant Student Club

August 18, 2020 | Valeria Fernández & Karen Coates | NPR

 

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Over 300,000 students in the U.S. migrate every year to work in agriculture, from spring to fall. At a high school in South Texas, when these students return, they gather at the Migrant Student Club to discuss their experiences and get support from a migrant student counselor. At a special gathering of the club we met Reyes, who started picking asparagus in Michigan to help support his family when he was 9 years old. And over the course of his last semester of school, we follow him as he works to graduate, financially support his family, and deal with an unexpected twist: the pandemic.

 

 

About the Authors

Valeria Fernández

Valeria Fernández is an independent investigative journalist focused on amplifying voices of immigrant communities. She recently received a Nieman Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University to develop Comadres al Aire. Her… Read More.


Karen Coates

Karen Coates is an independent journalist who reports primarily on issues involving the environment, science, food, health, and human rights. She is a contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine, and she… Read More.

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