...Christine Reiser Robbins; Mark W. Robbins landscape memory migrant labor space © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2015 Abstract This article applies...

... the Special Agricultural Worker (SAW) program is not likely to increase farmworker earnings and may result in wage decreases in some farm jobs. agricultural labor labor mobility migrant labor sample selection bias J430 J610 Earnings and Mobility of Legal...

..., villagers who are in the best position to contribute to household income as workers in Mexico are positively selected not to migrate to the United States. illegal aliens labor mobility limited dependent variables Mexico migrant labor migration rural development sample selectivity Undocumented...

...This chapter argues that there is nothing particularly new about migrant labor in North America. The continent's earliest human inhabitants were nomadic hunters who crossed a land bridge from Siberia as early as 40,000 years ago in search of caribou and woolly mammoths. The first Europeans who came...

... to the organizing of migrant laborers by Invisible Workers of the World (IWW), an activist collective from Slovenia. Initiated to address miserable living conditions in workers dormitories, the IWW campaign evolved to confront the role of borders and migration status in the exploitation of workers. Finally...

... contracts domestic workers Stefoni Carolina Asistencia a las Mujeres Migrantes AMM gender Ong Aihwa social economic citizenship marginalization migrant labor exploitation precarity For International Women’s Day 2015, Alice Volpi, a Brazilian graphic designer residing in Chile who is concerned...

...This chapter examines the plight of Mexican male workers in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Although the use of migrant labor drew heavy criticism and scapegoating from some of the city’s politicians and residents, the overarching narratives of the disaster and their emphasis on anti-black...

... of migrant labor and livelihood-seeking mobility, large numbers of South Africans move within the country for short and longer periods. The chapter highlights how South Africa and SADC have failed to effectively design and implement migration-aware public healthcare systems. The chapter talks about...

... and the vibrant pidgin tongues spoken by the migrant labor of the Indian Ocean. These authors and artists keep alive the idea of catastrophe, but also keep it at bay by taking a second look. Finding a flip-side more habitable, they bring to light a dimension of the world not paralyzed by tragedy and only...

... centuries, California Indians worked as migrant laborers in the state’s agribusiness, and today operate some of the most successful gaming resorts in the United States. Bibliography Altschul, Jeffrey H. , and Donn R. Grenda , eds. Islanders and Mainlanders: Prehistoric Context...

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... to the individualism and materialism of American life. Through the Caminata Nocturna, residents of El Alberto call upon one another in hopes of realizing a future in which they will no longer depend on international migration. They embrace varied understandings of ethnic identity, consumerism, migrant labor...

... life recommends ceasing such programs under their current formulation and, instead, extending a path to citizenship to guest workers. food labor immigration United States Carens Joseph malnutrition education poverty guest workers migrant labor farmwork citizenship associational freedom...

...-minority voters immigration policy temporary workers immigrants migrant labor during the early years of the twenty-first century, Congress began a new series of deliberations on how to institute a rational and humane system for managing the inflow of foreign migrant labor...

..., the recruitment of husbands and male relatives into the migrant labor system and the consequent refashioning of the landscape as a bounded, racialized and deeply gendered space. The songs shaped by these experiences bear witness to familial fragmentation caused by economic change, and to the many pressures placed...

...This chapter writes an ethnography of eviction that highlights the ambiguous position of Indonesian migrant labor in the Growth Triangle. More specifically, it demonstrates not only a process of eviction, but also a kind of revolving door of accruing dispossession. This suggests that the position...

... Agriculture National Labor Relations Board NLRB Immigration Blacks Labor Latin American Latinos Race North Carolina Citizens Association Tyson Foods Holly Farms migration Wilkesboro low-wage labor force migrant labor It was never easy for the [poultry] grower. In the early days...

...This chapter explores the production and possibilities of intimacy in the context of global labor migration. More specifically, it looks at tensions between a congenial affirmation of migrant workers and the constrictive governance of migrant labor for the state's regulatory purposes by analyzing...

...This chapter provides a historical comparative analysis of U.S. migration policy and examines why foreign migrant labor is growing at a rapid pace. In 1993, the Washington Consensus, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank—multilateral financial...

... populations accelerated the violence that accompanies human caging. Internal dynamics of societal change reflected California’s changing racial demography, as Cold War defense industries and giant agribusinesses attracted African American laborers from the U.S. South and Mexican migrant laborers from across...