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Post-1965 immigration has changed the rural midwest in both subtle and dramatic ways. Since 1980, the local expansion of meatpacking has reinvigorated southwest Kansas communities, attracting ...

This report summarizes initial findings of a three-year case study of the community of Firebaugh, a large agricultural region located on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley of California. The ...

Smuggling is one of the world’s oldest professions. When nation states established borders and sought to regulate traffic across them, they created markets for the smuggling of humans as well as goods ...

Rural Migration News summarizes and analyzes the most important migration-related issues affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter. Topics are ...

Publicado como introduccion al libro: Gail Mummert (Ed.) Fronteras fragmentadas. Zamora: COLMICH/CIDEM, 1999, 595 pp. Este libro trata de la construcción social de vidas que se desarrollan sobre dos ...

Health Care Access in California’s Mexican Immigrant Communities..... 2 MSSA Name..... 3 Population (1990)..... 3 Foreign-born workers are now recognized to be the secret ingredient of the one of the ...

Los Angeles county, the most populous in the US with 10 million residents, was ravaged by wildfires in January 2025. Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other cities were in the path of a ring of fires ...

About half of the fresh fruit and a quarter of the fresh vegetables consumed in the US are imported. Half of fresh fruit imports and three-fourths of fresh vegetable imports are from Mexico. Mexico's ...

Background of the Health Problem and Reason for the Study Nature of Health Problem For many years agriculture has been regarded as one of the nation’s most hazardous industries. A review of the ...

Contact us at [email protected]. Past projects include: Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports, the Changing Face of Rural America, Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science ...

Different from immigrant inflows into central and northern Europe in the 50s and 60s, farming is nowadays a key immigrant sector in Europe. Over-representation of non-European workers in farming can ...