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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...