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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health Care Access in California’s Mexican Immigrant Communities..... 2 MSSA Name..... 3 Population (1990)..... 3 Foreign-born workers are now recognized to be the secret ingredient of the one of the ...

Contact us at plmartin@ucdavis.edu. Past projects include: Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports, the Changing Face of Rural America, Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science ...

(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.

FLORIDA FARM LABOR* Robert D. Emerson, Lurleen Walters, Nobuyuki Iwai, John J. VanSickle, and Fritz Roka University of Florida The Florida Farm Labor Market The composition of the Florida farm work ...

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 ...

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 ...