Farm exports and farm labor: Would a Raise for Fruit and Vegetable Workers...
A quarter of the fresh fruit produced in the United States and almost a tenth of the fresh vegetables are exported. These exports—largely enabled by technology and transportation revolutions allowing...
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Farmworker wages in California: Large gap between full-time equivalent and...
A report in the LA Times last week explored why farmers in the Central Valley are having a hard time finding enough workers, despite reportedly paying up to 40 percent more than the California minimum...
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The H-2A farm guestworker program is expanding rapidly: Here are the numbers...
H-2A visas by the numbers: • 165,741: Number of H-2A jobs certified in 2016 • 14%: Increase in H-2A jobs since 2015 • 160%: Increase in H-2A jobs since 2006 • 134,368: Number of H-2A visas issued to...
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Why the UN Global Compact on Migration matters
In response to the large movements of refugees and migrants around the world, including the dramatic movement of over one million Syrians, Afghans, and Africans from various countries to Europe in...
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The UN Global Compact and labor migration: What can we expect?
The Global Compact on Migration (GCM) is an agreement that is being negotiated through the United Nations (UN) by its Member States to establish a new regime for cooperation on international migration....
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Agricultural guestworkers: The challenge of the expanding H-2A program
Agriculture has long been the poster child for an industry dependent on low-wage migrant workers. Today, about two-thirds of the hired workers employed on crop farms were born in Mexico, and most of...
View ArticleUnited States fails to participate in key global conversations on migration
On December 2, the State Department announced—and multiple news outlets reported—the decision of the Trump administration to end U.S. participation in the Global Compact for Migration (GCM), a...
View ArticleUN Secretary General’s report on migration highlights the need for government...
The United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) released a report in January 2018 titled Making migration work for all, that laid out four “considerations” to guide governments negotiating a Global Compact...
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New UN data on international migrants highlights special responsibility for...
Large movements of refugees and migrants around the world since 2015, many in response to humanitarian crises, have led to a global negotiation at the United Nations (UN) to create a new Global Compact...
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