The objective of the paper will be to examine changes in usage of farm labor, including hired and contract labor, other inputs, and technology and in aggregated agricultural output and productivity ...

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 ...

(Paper prepared for presentation at Changing Face of Rural America Conference, Newark, DE, Sept 11-13, 1997) Support for this research came from USDA/CSRS NRI Rural Development Grant #0166485 to NCSU.

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 ...

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 ...

Migration News summarizes and analyzes the most important immigration and integration developments of the preceding quarter. Topics are grouped by region: North America, Europe, Asia and Other.

This report was produced through a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, and Aguirre International, San Mateo, California. Richard Mines, U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Providing Full and Fair Legal Services to the New Transnational Migrant Workers in the U.S.: A Review of Best Practices and A New Paradigm for the 21st Century A memorandum to assist the U.S.

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 ...