The H-2A Program
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : David Griffith
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271046228
The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Lori A. Flores
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0300216386
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN :
Author : Paulina M. Irigaray
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1599423820
The majority of the people who make up the United States' seasonal agricultural workforce are nonimmigrant Mexican citizens. Immigration policies such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and the H-2A agricultural guest worker program were meant to encourage growers to employ legal labor workforces. A study of the laws and practices that eventually resulted in the H-2A program shows how and why the demographics are predominantly Mexican. In addition, such study is revealing as to why the US enacted the H-2A program-including definitional details of the program itself. However, does this program really work? This question has radically different answers. In theory, the program seems to be well designed; but, in practice, it does not function as intended because of its many shortcomings, loopholes, open-ended issues, and poor enforcement. I will analyze and demonstrate how these inadequacies perpetuate illegal immigration and exploitation of both legal and illegal seasonal agricultural farm workers. Lastly, I will offer a composite of recommendations for legislative reform of the H-2A program; as well as provide pertinent, resourceful questions for further research.
Author : Philip Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0192535463
Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect from migrant workers and what can be done to reduce worker-paid migration costs. For-profit recruiters are likely to be an enduring feature of international labor migration, which makes developing tools to improve the management of their activities ever more crucial. The UN recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 the need to measure what workers pay to get jobs in other countries with the goal of reducing worker-paid costs so that workers and their families can benefit more from international labor migration. Using cost data from over 3,000 workers, Merchants of Labor examines the often murky world of labor brokers, travel agents, and others who move low-skilled workers from one country to another in order to explore lower worker-paid migration costs. It explains the three core functions of labor markets-- recruitment, remuneration, and retention-- and shows how national borders increase recruitment costs. New data on what workers pay to get jobs in other countries are presented, and incentives to complement enforcement are explored as a way to induce recruiters to protect migrant workers.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Carolyn S. Blocker
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780788174476
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 created the "H-2A" program, under which employers may bring workers into this country on a temporary, nonimmigrant basis to perform seasonal agricultural work when domestic workers are unavailable. This report presents information on the likelihood of a widespread agricultural labor shortage and its impact on the need for nonimmigrant guestworker and the H-2A program's ability to meet the needs of agricultural employers while protecting domestic and foreign agricultural workers, both at present and if a significant number of nonimmigrant guestworkers is needed in the future.
Author : Philip L. Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300156006
American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. This book looks at what these statistics mean for farmers, labourers, and rural America.