Entering "Paradise

Families like this one shown, walking into their supposed "paradise" only to find a reality unlike the dream. 

Another family attempting to find their way in California, as the feeliing of uncertainty is conveyed through the image.

After a strenous and long car ride, the last thing anyone escaping their dust covered life wanted to hear was "there are no jobs" especially when they had no where to eat, sleep, or call home until they could find such work. Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin's "The Migrant Experience" reveals the difficulties as their subjects were "Driven by the Great Depression, drought, and dust storms, thousands of farmers packed up their families and made the difficult journey to California where they hoped to find work. Along with their meager belongings, the Dust Bowl refugees brought with them their inherited cultural expressions." Once they arrived in California, there were "migrant camps and other sides throughout California" that served as a temporary home and community while the hunt for work began as the photographs show some of the first families to stay in these camps.