Agricultural Guest Worker Programs

Author : Paulina M. Irigaray
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599423821

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An Analysis of the H-2a Agricultural Guest Worker Program and Recommendations for Future Policy by Paulina M. Irigaray Pdf

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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021052423

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Agricultural Guest Worker Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops Pdf

Author : Carolyn S. Blocker
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0788174479

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H-2 A Agricultural Guestworker Program by Carolyn S. Blocker Pdf

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. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D035774302

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Regional Perspectives on Agricultural Guestworker Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UCBK:C069474377

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Simple Solutions by Anonim Pdf

Author : North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Institut Nord-Sud
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
ISBN : PSU:000058995198

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Migrant Workers in Canada by North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.) Pdf

For the past 40 years, farmers in Ontario and other provinces have been meeting some of their seasonal labour needs by hiring temporary workers from Caribbean countries and, since 1974, from Mexico under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP).

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050348718

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Temporary Guest Worker Proposals in the Agriculture Sector by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf

Author : Leah F. Vosko,Tanya Basok,Cynthia Spring
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031177040

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Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic by Leah F. Vosko,Tanya Basok,Cynthia Spring Pdf

The 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic reinforced inequalities between the global North and South, amplifying pre-existing disparities between migrant and citizen/permanent resident workers in receiving and sending states worldwide. In contexts such as Canada, it also underscored that many workers in occupations and sectors deemed “essential” enough to be exempt from stay-at-home orders and other public safety measures are migrants, a sizeable number of whom sustain Canada’s food supply through their work in its agricultural industry. This book explores the dynamics behind the pandemic’s deleterious outcomes for this vital group of workers, highlighting migrant farmworkers importance to the Canadian economy, society, and the world of work alongside the conditions they endured before and during the global health pandemic through policy and media analysis and open-ended interviews with workers enrolled in two streams of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) as well as migrants without legal status employed in agriculture located in Ontario and Quebec. Advancing the notion of transnational employment strain, the authors derive insight from the employment strain model, a framework for understanding risks to the physical and psychological well-being of workers, and expand it to account for migrants’ relationships across transnational space.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061643099

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Temporary Agriculture Work Visa Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : LOC:00039231931

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Guest Worker Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims Pdf

Author : United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063107118

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Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers by United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Government information
ISBN : 9781428907041

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Agricultural Opportunities Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D012282203

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Agricultural Guest Worker Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : UCSD:31822037828787

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H-2A Visa Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Pdf

Author : Leigh Binford
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292749788

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Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest by Leigh Binford Pdf

From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally, receive health benefits, contribute to pensions, are represented by Canadian consular officials, and rate the program favorably. Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest takes us behind the ideology and examines the daily lives of SAWP workers from Tlaxcala, Mexico (one of the leading sending states), observing the great personal and family price paid in order to experience a temporary rise in a standard of living. The book also observes the disparities of a gutted Mexican countryside versus the flourishing agriculture in Canada, where farm labor demand remains high. Drawn from extensive surveys and nearly two hundred interviews, ethnographic work in Ontario (destination of over 77 percent of migrants in the author’s sample), and quantitative data, this is much more than a case study; it situates the Tlaxcala-Canada exchange within the broader issues of migration, economics, and cultural currents. Bringing to light the historical genesis of “complementary” labor markets and the contradictory positioning of Mexican government representatives, Leigh Binford also explores the language barriers and nonexistent worker networks in Canada, as well as the physical realities of the work itself, making this book a complete portrait of a provocative segment of migrant labor.