Europe has a tenth of the world’s people, a quarter of the world’s countries, and a third of the world’s international migrants. Can European countries with aging populations that “need” immigrants ...

$23 billion worth of fruits, nuts, and berries, $12 billion worth of vegetables and melons and $4 billion worth of horticultural specialties such as greenhouse and nursery plants, making FVH sales $39 ...

The H-2A program allows US farm employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to request that DOL certify their need for H-2A guest workers to fill seasonal farm jobs. DOL certifies farm ...

Senate Democrats and Republicans in February 2024 developed a bipartisan proposal to reduce illegal entries over the Mexico-US border by preventing asylum seekers from entering the US to apply for ...

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 availability of immigrant farmworkers from Mexico relaxes a constraint that might otherwise slow the expansion of fruit, vegetable, and horticultural (FVH) production in the United States. We test ...

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 ...

The objective of this paper is to examine changes in employment and wage patterns, industrial restructuring, and foreign competition that affect job opportunities of recent immigrants to 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 ...

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 ...

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.