We have a great challenge ahead with this issue

We have a great challenge ahead with this issue.
Migrant families are exposed to many chemicals
during their work. These contaminated environments
may bring future illness to family members and also
complications for migrant student learning.
Be sure to have good and complete health records
on each family member. This will help you update
health records when they return every year. Teachers
and staff must be aware of any immediate illness a
child may have. Migrant and general school staff
must have a plan of action as it relates to migrant
health issues. These plans should be coordinated with
local health providers.
SOCIAL ISOLATION
The isolation of the migrants from the rest of the
community where they are living is hard to imagine
until it has been experienced. Camps are located in
rural areas near the fields. It is possible to drive
through farmland where literally hundreds of
thousands of migrants are living and working, and
yet be unaware of their existence.
Migrants are socially invisible. Ethnic groups are
often kept separate in camps. They rarely interact
with each other, thus reinforcing the isolation. Local
people try to keep migrants at a distance. In addition
to being strangers, migrant children are often
culturally different; local children ignore or pick on
them (Prewitt Diaz, et. al., 1990). Migrant families
try not to use the existing local systems to get help.
They will try to get help and support within the
migrant camp population before they ask or apply for
any health, social, or educational benefits. If they are
from another country and do not have proper
documentation, they will not ask for any help and
will try to live totally isolated from the outside world.
The migrant parent will rarely question the
teacher or school system about any situation
concerning their child. They will accept as correct
and unquestionable the will and demands of the
school towards their children. Most parents may feel
intimidated by school meetings. They will also be
discouraged if the teacher does not speak their native
language.
SOCIAL ISOLATION - SOLUTIONS
It is a fact that the institution for socialization and
migrant student interaction is the school. A number of
factors (e.g. language, transportation, and access)
influence migrants’ involvement with the school and
other community institutions. We must teach all
migrant students at an early age that it is important to
learn English in order to know the system and work
within the system. It will be to their advantage to
know two languages. It will also help them interact
with the rest of the children.
Schools must make an effort to schedule
educational trips to museums, theaters, supermarkets,
science fairs, universities, festivals, and other
community activities so that they learn how to
behave within the different environments and learn

from the visits. All activities must have goals and
objectives directed at instruction.