The US food supply depends on several million agricultural laborers, who are mostly undocumented, tend to work in close quarters and lack medical insurance.
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Central Americans who came to the US in the 1980s fleeing civil war drew on their background fighting for social justice back home to help unionize farmworkers, janitors and poultry packers in the US.
Immigration experts explain who’s really trying to cross the US-Mexico border, what they want — and why immigration, even undocumented immigration, actually benefits the country.
Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
A researcher takes a closer look at the millions of unauthorized workers who play an essential role in the U.S. economy – and why they matter.
Female migrant farm workers across North America are vulnerable to sexual abuse and assault because the systems set up to temporarily employ them offer no protections or access to citizenship.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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College Professor of Anthropology, Okanagan College
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Associate Professor of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town
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Director of Cornell Farmworker Program, Cornell University
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Researcher in Economics, University of Surrey
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Assistant Professor, Temple University
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Thermal Physiologist, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre; University Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Doctoral Candidate, Medical Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University
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Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Department of Migration in Global Perspective, The Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany., Humboldt University of Berlin
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PhD Candidate in the Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Curator of Asian Pacific American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria