How were migrant workers affected during the Great Depression?
A very complicated question. Migrants in what country? The great depression was a world wide depression. In the USA it happened to coincide with a period of drought in the mid section of the country which resulted in the “dust bowl”. This drought lasted for several years and caused consecutive year crop failures and bankruptcy for many farmers in a huge area of the USA. Complicating things was the advent of large scale mechanized farming which allowed one farmer with machinery to do the many times work of farmers who had been using animals such as mules horses and oxen as sources of power. In many parts of the USA large land owners had employed tenant farmers to work their land. one owner might have many tenants living on and farming small plots of land. The tenants would do all the work and give up most of the crop that they harvested to the owner, in exchange for being allowed to live on their small plots of land. When mechanization occurred, the owners no longed needed many workers,
