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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1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).
A recent study shows that from 2006 to 2022, the average age of a U.S.-born crop production worker rose from 39.6 years to 40.6 years — but for migrant crop workers, the jump was from 37.2 years ...
A school for the children of white migrant farm workers, circa 1945. Children of migrant workers struggle to achieve the same level of educational success as their peers. Relocation, whether a singular or a regular occurrence, causes discontinuity in education, which causes migrant students to progress slowly through school and drop out at high ...
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in ...
Per state law, a migrant farmworker is defined as an individual who makes at least 50% of their total income from agricultural employment and lives 50 miles away for at least three months after ...
Martinez was a migrant worker whose family traveled throughout the Midwest harvesting crops. He was one of 10 siblings in a family of migrant workers and accepted the responsibility of paying bills and managing the family finances. As a young man, Martinez organized and marched side-by-side with Cesar Chavez during the grape boycott of the ...
California has 72,257 migrant students, who are eligible to participate in the federal Migrant Education Program, more than any other state in the country. California forces migrant farmworker ...
But in 1967, with the help of his father and others, Velasquez organized FLOC among migrant field workers picking tomatoes in Ohio. [1] [3] FLOC's initial organizing strategy was to focus on workers, as most unions did. FLOC organizers followed migrant workers year-round, moving south to Texas and Florida every winter to build an organizing ...