The Effects on U.S. Farm Workers of an Agricultural Guest Worker Program
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File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural laborers
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File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2009
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Author : Paulina M. Irigaray
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 50,44 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 : Carolyn S. Blocker
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 31,65 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 : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
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Author : Carlotta C. Joyner
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Philip L Martin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000301001
A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.