The report includes a conference summary, introductory remarks, keynote address, four conference papers and comments on each, and summary of major policy issues. The keynote address reviews policies and practices affecting migrant children, the roots of the migratory farm labor system, impact of migrancy on families; services for migrant children, and accomplishments of the past 15 years. The first paper briefly examines historic and current trends in farm employment in the United States, focusing on the numbers and characteristics of hired farmworkers and migratory labor; factors affecting the farm labor force size and composition; the likelihood of the 1970s farm employment trends continuing into the 1980s; and policy and program implications for workers and farm operators, focusing on black migrants, the second paper looks at family characteristics that influence child-rearing, movement and stimulus change, speech, and the child's education, health and nutritional needs. Focusing on Hispanic migrants, the next paper discusses entitlement, child labor, migrants and crime, the national news media and problems of migrant children, and impact of immigration on U.S.-Mexican relations. The last paper reviews the historical approaches to agricultural labor, past strategies, and alternative strategies. Major policy issues (migrant farm labor, child labor, immigration, rural development, research and development, child and family support systems, self-determination for farmworkers) are summarized. (NQA)