A37: Migrant Farm Worker (MFW) Focus Group: Codes/Sub-Codes

• Church
• Importance of church to MFWs
• As a meeting place
• Crime
• Feelings of vulnerability
• Distinction between MFWs and permanent Latino community members (separate communities), but interact at church, pulga, Latino stores
• Family members already currently living in the United States
• Generosity from local community demonstrated to MFWs
• Anglos
• Health
• Mix of modern and alternative medicine
• Occupational hazards (Green Tobacco Sickness)
• Homesickness
• Tough transition stage when first arrive in US, miss family and social environment.
• Isolation
• Most of their time spent on farms
• Limited free time to visit Fuquay-Varina
• Latino stores
• Contact point
• Crucial services (send $, call home, mail home, buy Mexican goods)
• Important meeting point
• Latino work ethic
• Priority of making money over health
• Desire to be productive, not sedentary
• Racial interaction
• Limited
• Random acts of kindness toward MFWs on behalf of African-Americans and Caucasians
• Search for better life
• Working toward better life
• Desire to be productive and paid
• Taking advantage of MFWs
• Assaulted because easy target due to carrying cash on them
• Some groups visit camps, plan scheme and return to attempt robbery

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