U.S. Immigration Policy, the Mexican Village Economy, and Agricultural Labor Markets in California
Author: J. Edward Taylor
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 112
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Author: J. Edward Taylor
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip L. Martin
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780877667292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmigration is changing the face of rural America, from Florida to Washington and from Maine to California. Migrants arrive, many from Mexico, to fill jobs on farms and in farm-related industries, usually at earnings below the poverty. Leaders of rural industries are adamant that a steady influx of foreign workers is necessary for economic survival. But the integration of these newcomers is uneven: many immigrants achieve some measure of the American dream, but others find persistent poverty, overcrowded housing, and crime. The New Rural Poverty examines the effect of rural immigration on inland agricultural areas in California, farm areas in coastal California, and meat and poultry processing centers in Delaware and Iowa. The authors examine the interdependencies between immigrants and agriculture in the United States, explore the policy challenges and options, and assess how current proposals for immigration reform will affect rural America.
Author: J. Edward Taylor
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780877666707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the socioeconomic links among farm employment, immigration, and welfare use not only within California's Central Valley, but also along the state's Central Coast and in its southern regions. Using U.S. Census data and information collected from extensive community-level site visits, the authors find that immigration, largely from rural Mexico, is changing the face of rural California, increasing levels of population, poverty, and public service demands. The authors caution that upward mobility among these immigrant workers may be limited and that recent legislative changes are reducing the public resources available to help newcomers adjust, just as the number of immigrants is increasing.
Author: Douglas S. Massey
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2002-03-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1610443829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMigration between Mexico and the United States is part of a historical process of increasing North American integration. This process acquired new momentum with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, which lowered barriers to the movement of goods, capital, services, and information. But rather than include labor in this new regime, the United States continues to resist the integration of the labor markets of the two countries. Instead of easing restrictions on Mexican labor, the United States has militarized its border and adopted restrictive new policies of immigrant disenfranchisement. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors examines the devastating impact of these immigration policies on the social and economic fabric of the Mexico and the United States, and calls for a sweeping reform of the current system. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors shows how U.S. immigration policies enacted between 1986–1996—largely for symbolic domestic political purposes—harm the interests of Mexico, the United States, and the people who migrate between them. The costs have been high. The book documents how the massive expansion of border enforcement has wasted billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, yet has not deterred increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants from heading north. The authors also show how the new policies unleashed a host of unintended consequences: a shift away from seasonal, circular migration toward permanent settlement; the creation of a black market for Mexican labor; the transformation of Mexican immigration from a regional phenomenon into a broad social movement touching every region of the country; and even the lowering of wages for legal U.S. residents. What had been a relatively open and benign labor process before 1986 was transformed into an exploitative underground system of labor coercion, one that lowered wages and working conditions of undocumented migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens alike. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors offers specific proposals for repairing the damage. Rather than denying the reality of labor migration, the authors recommend regularizing it and working to manage it so as to promote economic development in Mexico, minimize costs and disruptions for the United States, and maximize benefits for all concerned. This book provides an essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical, theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S. policy on Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as well as how it might be fixed.
Author: James Stuart
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking paper on economic implications of the migration of Mexican agricultural workers (irregular migrants) from the village of San Jeromino, Oaxaca, Mexico to California, USA - considers demographic aspects of migrant worker households, compares employment opportunities in Mexico and the USA, wage rates, and family living conditions, sees rural community resistance to social change occuring with economic development, etc. References.
Author: J. Edward Taylor
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Runsten
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Author: Georges Vernez
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past twenty years, California's history has been marked by a continuous, growing flow of Mexican immigrant laborers. As more and more of them have chosen to remain in California indefinitely, their relative importance in the state's and southern California's economy has increased. Further, they have become the cause of additional growth through family reunification (itself encouraged by U.S. immigration policy), the expansion of immigration communities and networks that reduce the cost of migration to successive waves of migrants, and a fertility rate exceeding that of native women and most other immigrant women. As a result, California is characterized, more than any other state in the Union, by a large, permanent, self-perpetuating Mexican labor presence. Today, at least one of four new entrants into the California labor force is estimated to be Mexican-born, and nearly one in four workers is of Mexican origin. This relatively large participation of Mexican labor in California's economy is a fairly recent phenomenon. However, it already raises some policy challenges for the state that are likely to intensify with the expected continuation of Mexican labor immigration. The purpose of this study is to review Mexican labor's importance to California's labor market, how its volume and characteristics have changed, and the implications of those changes.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernesto Galarza
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of employment policy in respect of migrant workers in the USA, with particular reference to the employment of Mexican seasonal workers in agriculture in california - covers labour shortages of rural workers in the state, the recruitment of braceros, working conditions, collective agreements, labour contracts, etc. Bibliography pp. 260 to 276, and references.