More HUMAN RIGHTS UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGE Migrant farmworkers represent the backbone and marrow of our agricultural economy. Yet these individuals areone of the least protectedfrom on-the-job harms — ranging from intimidation, harassment, and wage theft, to extreme working conditions, pesticide expos...
Guest workers who temporarily live in the US through the federal H2A program to work on farms are also migrant farmworkers. Other examples of mobile populations beyond migrant farmworkers in the US include people in construction, meatpacking, landscaping, day laborers, and disaster response demolition...
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People who migrate usually do it for economic, family, or safety concerns. The United Nations Population Bureau estimated that there were 244 million international migrants, including refugees from areas of political turmoil and war in 2015. Migration has a profound impact both on the countries that...
The photograph was taken while Lange was working for the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration) in the depths of the Great Depression. Upon its publication in the San Francisco News, it quickly came to be seen as an iconic representation of the Depression. Today, ...
Until one day, when we were talking on the phone, he mentions a news story: "There was a segment the other night on WCAX about Mexican dairy farmhands up here. I guess there's a good number of them. They only leave the farms if the owners goes too, you know, not really being ...
In this research, 200 migrant farm workers (mean age 33.5 years, 93% men, 92% Mexican, 59% low education) were interviewed. The results indicate that work-accidents are the triggering factor; in fact, workers with a positive history of trauma report a 7 times higher risk than those ...
These photographs also led to a commission in 1935 from the federal Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration [FSA]). The latter agency, established by the U.S. Agriculture Department, hoped that Lange’s powerful images would bring the conditions of the rural poor...