Sarah Bermeo for Climate Change, Adaptation and Migration, a conversation on climate-migration and rural impact central to Dr. On their future treatment will depend the course they will be forced to take.”Īlluding to Steinbeck, Dr. They can be citizens of the highest type, or they can be an army driven by suffering to take what they need. To attempt to force them into a peonage of starvation and intimidated despair will be unsuccessful. They are the best American stock, intelligent, resourceful and, if given a chance, socially responsible. Steinbeck wrote, “The new migrants from the dust bowl are here to stay. In a series of articles for the San Francisco News entitled “The Harvest Gypsies,” John Steinbeck described the 1930s Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley, uprooted by drought and crumbling wheat, then later novelized in the American classic Grapes of Wrath.
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