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Addressing California Farmworkers’ Mental Health & Food Security During the Pandemic [PDF]
How did economic instability and additional pandemic factors affect farmworkers' mental health? Read BIMI's new policy brief "Addressing California Farmworkers’ Mental Health & Food Security During the Pandemic" by Graciela Chong.
Chong, Graciela
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Migrant Farmworkers - Those Who Would Be Saved [PDF]
Every year, migrant farmworkers follow the Southeastern migrant stream from Florida to Delaware to harvest truck crops, crops that cannot be harvested by machine because they require human judgment in order to be picked when ripe. Many crops which end up
Buckwalter, Jane
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Wages, Wage Violations, and Pesticide Safety Experienced by Migrant Farmworkers in North Carolina
Farmworkers have the potential to receive wages that fail to meet minimum wage standards. This analysis describes wages and minimum wage violations among farmworkers, and it determines associations of wage violations with personal characteristics and ...
Haiying Chen +6 more
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Farmworkers and education: parental participation in their children's schooling among farmworkers
Farmworkers in the United States provide the food that feeds this nation. Yet, farmworkers continue to be one of the most under-privileged individuals in the country.
Eric Alfredo De Leon
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ABSTRACT Under Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Agricultural Stream, migrant agricultural workers (MAWs) arriving principally from Caribbean and Latin American countries are granted entry to Canada as essential workers. Yet they have limited access to social and statutory benefits and entitlements vis‐à‐vis citizens and permanent ...
Leah F. Vosko
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Farmworker and Farmer Perceptions of Farmworker Agricultural Chemical Exposure in North Carolina [PDF]
Agricultural chemicals pose health risks for farmworkers engaged in cultivating and harvesting crops. In a project to develop culturally appropriate interventions to reduce farmworker exposure to agricultural chemicals, formative research used in-depth interviews and focus groups to elicit beliefs and knowledge about exposure from farmers and migrant ...
Sara A, Quandt +3 more
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Gender Justice in the Triple Planetary Crisis: A Scoping Review
ABSTRACT Aim To identify and report how gender justice is conceptualised and discussed in contemporary health literature in relation to the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and gender‐diverse populations, and the representation of nurses and other healthcare ...
Catelyn Richards +7 more
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Breaking the Cycle: First‐Generation College Nursing Students Attending a Rural Community College
ABSTRACT Aim This study describes the physical, mental, social, economic, and diversity issues experienced by rural first‐generation college nursing students. Design and Methods This cross sectional study was conducted at a rural community college situated in an agricultural area with a significant Latinx farm worker population.
Alvaro Tellez Arriaga +3 more
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Mexican farmworkers' standpoint of California agriculture
The historical relegation of Mexicans to farm labor and their subjugation to lethal working and living conditions through legal structures of oppression to this day remains an issue that does not get enough attention.
Lievanos Medina, Eduardo
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