When assessing a group of migrant farmworkers, the community health nurse notes that the group leaves their home base for part of the year to travel to the same place along a route during the agricultural season, usually returning on yearly basis. The community health nurse identifies this as which of the following?

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Migrant stream migration is a general term that involves following the harvest seasons of agricultural crops, moving from place to place, usually along predetermined routes. In a restricted circuit, many people travel throughout a season within a small geographic area, following the crops. Nomadic migration involves traveling away from home for several years, working from farm to farm and crop to crop, relying on word of mouth about job opportunities. The eastern stream migration originates in Florida and extends up the East Coast through North Caroline, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and other states east of the Mississippi.

When Assessing a Group of Migrant Farmworkers, the Community Health