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Explanation:
The Dust Bowl was a period where thousands of Americans, mostly white, from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri migrated to California because of the disastrous dust storm that befell their land, spoilt their ecology and brought severe economic hardship.
The Dust Bowl victims were American natives who migrated to California to seek for job and shelter in the 1930s. These migrants were from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri. They were seen as refugees because they had previously lived in the Great plain but had left for quite long and wanted to come back to compete for the little space and jobs with citizens who have been long residents of the land and did not have alternative homes. They were largely discriminated against,made to do menial jobs, underpaid and lived in places not befitting for humans.
The great resentment for this migrants was heightened by the high poverty, lack, poor yield of agricultural products, and high unemployment rate ravaging the land at this period. These migrants who are normally not farmers, went about California looking for odd farming jobs of gathering and dressing cotton seeds. In fact, the Californian government passed the California Indigent Act in 1933 that regarded the action of bringing indigent people into the state as a criminal act.
A popular economist of that era, Paul Taylor, called them "refugees", refugees from "dust, drought, and protracted depression." The survivors are still called by that name because they are a product of that memorable event.
