Farm labor contracting, according to the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Protection Act, is the recruiting, soliciting, hiring, employing, furnishing, or transporting any migrant or seasonal ...

The U.S. is the world's second leading mushroom producer, with 17 percent of the world's 4.5 billion pounds in 1995; second only toChina, the leader since 1991 (figure 1). U.S. mushroom production ...

The Issue. Implicit in many parts of the Plan of Action from the 1998 Santiago Summit of the Americas Declaration is the need for more consistent and more professional enforcement of laws that have a ...

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 ...

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.

In 1975 Governor Edmund G. Brown signed into law the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). The intent and policy of the ALRA was clearly stated in the statute: "It is hereby stated to be the policy ...

Smuggling is one of the world’s oldest professions. When nation states established borders and sought to regulate traffic across them, they created markets for the smuggling of humans as well as goods ...

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 ...

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 ...

F Visa (foreign students). F visas are issued by U.S. consular posts on the basis of admission decisions by a school approved by the Attorney General after consultation with the Secretary of Education ...

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 ...