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  2. Migrant worker - Wikipedia

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    Migrant workers often have poorer health and shorter life expectancy relative to the general population. Migrant workers are often undocumented, making it much harder for them to seek protections under the labor laws of the country they are in. Many employers take advantage of this fact and create dangerous working conditions.

  3. Agricultural safety and health - Wikipedia

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    A migrant farm worker is an individual who is required to be absent from a permanent place of residence for the purpose of seeking employment in agricultural work. There is estimated to be 1 to 2.7 million farm workers in the United States and farm workers are an integral component to the U.S, agriculture industry. [19]

  4. Farmworker - Wikipedia

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    Hired labor accounted for more than half of the total (hired plus family) labor in the horticulture sector. In the 27 states, the average wage of farm workers was €6.34. [24] In 2010, there were estimated to be about 25 million agricultural workers, including farm family members, in the EU-27 states; many were part-time workers.

  5. Expert: Mass deportation would have ‘devastating impact’ on ...

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    A 2023 report by the U.S. Department of Labor, based on interviews with nearly 2,600 migrant crop workers between 2020 and 2022, found that only 58% of those interviewed were authorized to work in ...

  6. California closes thousands of farmworkers’ homes annually ...

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    “The very nature of migrant farm work has changed so there’s an additional requirement and update needed in that space,” Newsom said at the press conference in Fresno.

  7. How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth ... - AOL

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    Pedro Martínez, who meticulously recorded his earnings when he was a farmworker in the United States, relaxes at his home in Huajuapan de León, Mexico.

  8. Farmworkers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Migrant farmworkers are considered to be temporary workers who move to an area for work, cultivating a crop during the harvest season. Seasonal farm workers, however, live in an area from year to year. The states with the highest percentage of both migrant and seasonal farm workers include; California, Florida, Oregon, North Carolina, and ...

  9. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act of ...

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    The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA or MSPA) (public law 97-470) (January 14, 1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).