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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been well over a decade since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) which created the authority to sanction employers who knowingly employ unauthorized aliens.

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

Publicado como introduccion al libro: Gail Mummert (Ed.) Fronteras fragmentadas. Zamora: COLMICH/CIDEM, 1999, 595 pp. Este libro trata de la construcción social de vidas que se desarrollan sobre dos ...

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 ...

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 ...