Post-1965 immigration has changed the rural midwest in both subtle and dramatic ways. Since 1980, the local expansion of meatpacking has reinvigorated southwest Kansas communities, attracting ...

Different from immigrant inflows into central and northern Europe in the 50s and 60s, farming is nowadays a key immigrant sector in Europe. Over-representation of non-European workers in farming can ...

Rural Migration News summarizes and analyzes the most important migration-related issues affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter. Topics are ...

Background of the Health Problem and Reason for the Study Nature of Health Problem For many years agriculture has been regarded as one of the nation’s most hazardous industries. A review of the ...

This report summarizes initial findings of a three-year case study of the community of Firebaugh, a large agricultural region located on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley of California. The ...

Concern over labor is one of the most persistant topics in California agriculture. As we enter the Twenty-first Century, the questions of the nature of future California agricultural employment, who ...

This report was produced through a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, and Aguirre International, San Mateo, California. Richard Mines, U.S.

(Paper prepared for presentation at Changing Face of Rural America Conference, Newark, DE, Sept 11-13, 1997) Support for this research came from USDA/CSRS NRI Rural Development Grant #0166485 to NCSU.

About half of the fresh fruit and a quarter of the fresh vegetables consumed in the US are imported. Half of fresh fruit imports and three-fourths of fresh vegetable imports are from Mexico. Mexico's ...

Under the 1998 Santiago Summit of the Americas Declaration, the United States and other Western Hemisphere nations affirmed their commitment to "make special effort to guarantee the human rights of ...

Providing Full and Fair Legal Services to the New Transnational Migrant Workers in the U.S.: A Review of Best Practices and A New Paradigm for the 21st Century A memorandum to assist the U.S.