An analysis of the effects of importing farm workers from Mexico
Each year, hundreds of thousands of farm workers emigrate from Mexico. to cultivate and harvest crops on American farms and return to Mexico at the end of the harvest season. These men are permitted to enter the United States under the auspices of the Mexican farm labor program established by the fe...
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Scholarly Commons
1963
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Online Access: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1538 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2537&context=uop_etds |
Summary: | Each year, hundreds of thousands of farm workers emigrate from Mexico. to cultivate and harvest crops on American farms and return to Mexico at the end of the harvest season. These men are permitted to enter the United States under the auspices of the Mexican farm labor program established by the federal government. The migration of these farm laborers has involved "...one of the most significant population movements in the Western Hemisphere in the last twenty-five years". |
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