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The Pros And Cons Of Migrant Farm Workers

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“Migrants are an asset to every country [...]. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers”, General of the International Labor Organization Juan Somavía stresses Mexican migrant laborers should be viewed as equals rather than inferior based on their ethnicity and economic status. The misconception of migrant farm workers would be nonexistent if migrants were able to find employment in their home countries, consequently, the majority come from developing countries with little to no economic benefits. Developing countries tend to be victims of poverty, war, racism, corruption within the government and natural disasters. The Mexican people feel as if labor migration was forced upon them given it is the only way their families will survive. Migrants do not receive government assistance or social …show more content…

Migrants receive little to no medical assistance from the American government which makes nearly impossible to be eligible to receive adequate health care. Migrants farm workers who are documented may receive minimal assistance under the Affordable Care Act. For documented farm workers’ whose income is under the federal poverty requirement, they can receive assistance through Medicaid. Given that, the temporary status of migrants, employers are not liable to provide health insurance. Doctors do not bother to provide the necessary medical attention to migrant patients because they know the vast majority of farm workers do not have insurance. Agriculture is one of the leading hazardous occupations of the United States. Hispanic field workers are more likely than any other ethnic group to be involved in a work-related injury. Field workers tend to experience a range of illnesses and injuries including back and hip pains, exposure to pesticides, sun exposure, and poor

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The Lives of Migrant Farmworkers is article where Dirk Frewing recalls he lives as he grew up. He begins his article painting a picture of nurturing parents that would take him and his sister on driving excursions through farmland. Seizing an educational opportunity, he parents informed him how hard the farm hands work. The official introduction to the life of a farmworker came when Frewing was in college literature through the book Plum Plum Pickers. Frewing then went on to frequent work camps/fields with a friend.

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The documentary “Invisible Indians” argues that the Mixtec indigenous people of Oaxaca are both misunderstood and mistreated, when they are fighting to be seen and heard. Throughout the film, examples are given of how the Mixtecs are exploited for cheap labor forces, getting little to no benefits all for the hope of not only achieving a better life for themselves, but also to provided for those who they left behind in Oaxaca, as they travel north. The documentary starts off by describing some of the push factors that have driven the Mixtecs out of Oaxaca, so that the viewer can have a more indebt understanding to why the Mixtecs are here and what they are working towards. As stated in the beginning of the film, the Mixtecs have for years been

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Cosman offers the impression that illegal immigrants coming into the United States should not be given the same level of medical care afforded to all American citizens. Providing illegal immigrants proper health care and insurance will keep American citizens free of

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itself…causes emotional distress, depression, trauma associated with family separation, and distrust of anyone associate with federal state, and local government, including physicians…” If immigrants didn’t trust physicians, then the logical outcome would be those immigrants getting ill due to the lack of treatment. The American College of Physicians predict that this behavior would be very costly to the healthcare system. The next reason as to why guest worker programs are so effective to combat illegal immigration is because there were other guest worker programs that were successful. The “Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program” between Guatemala and Canada is one fine example of a successful, functional program.

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Laborers and immigrants conditions varied, depending on where they were, and for immigrants it often depended on where they came from. In Schauler’s account he lists out petitions and experiences of many people working in mills and factories. The main purpose is to fight to get a 10 hour work day instead of a 13 to 14 hour work day, but the hours aren’t the main thing everyone has a problem with. Most of the workers are upset about the lack of time dedicated to meals, often only having between 30 and 45 minutes to eat, which is not enough time in their opinion. Many also complain that their working conditions are unhealthy and cause sickness due to the air being dangerous.

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Children of migrant farm workers move frequently with their families because migrant worker families must go where there are jobs available, and they receive lower pay for their labor. Poverty, and possible unavailable transportation to and from schools, along with the lack of parental education may also impact a child’s school attendance and academic learning. Federal Law allows children of migrant workers the attendance to acquire an equal academic public school education. In order for Manuel to get help, the staff team seems to want to identify him as “handicap”, and in order to do so, he cannot have difficulties in linguistic or cultural differences, or environmental conditions that establish a “handicap”. Manuel seems to meet both of the exclusions, and this can violate the law if he is placed in special education.

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Their children experience many obstacles to education and socialization. Employers often exploit undocumented workers, and, although they have rights in the United States, they have little access to protection” (Valdez,Dennis Migrant Farm Labor). These workers were exposed with lots of toxins and as result did not have adequate health care to cover their hospital bills. Education was another big deal,lots of these workers did not know how to read or write,as a result growers took advantage of when it came to their salary and hours. Not only were the workers affected but as well as their kids,they sometimes had no access to education because as soon as they turned a certain age they had to begin working.

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The Mexican and Mexican American people were very vital from 1900 to the 1950s when it came to farm labor. They did a lot for the farmers here in the United States when the rise for agriculture workers went up. The link between the labor workers and the American farmers came about because of the the worker program that was going on during the first World War, that is when the need for agriculture workers really boosted. There were also times when the need of workers intensified, luckily there was an abundant amount of Mexican and Mexican Americans to help. Despite the major contribution that these workers had towards agriculture many were treated awfully by their bosses.

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The superstition that the immigrants are hurting the U.S economy results in a lack of any rights for the migrants. However, According to “Immigration Surveillance”, “some sectors of the national economy would have been devastated without their labor” (Kalhan 42). Immigrants provide a large amount of labor for the tough,

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Moreover, immigrants have no rigid to what welfare is. They don’t go from place to place saying there

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The main focus of many immigrant debate is whether or not unauthorized immigrants should be included in any of the health care bill or whether or not immigrants are taking over jobs that Americans do not want to do. What is always forgotten is the fact that immigrants are a critical part of the health care workforce at both high and less skilled ends of the occupational spectrum. Evidently, immigrants encompass more than “one one-quarter of all Physicians and Surgeons in the United States, and roughly one-fifth of all Nursing, Psychiatric, and Home Health Aides”. “Immigrant health care workers are employed in occupations that are not only expected to experience relatively high labor demand over the coming decade, but in which there are already pronounced worker shortages in many parts of the country”. Even if more native-born workers are drawn into health care professions in the future, the role that immigrants play in providing health care services is likely to increase as the U.S. population continues to age and the growing population of senior citizens requires more medical care.

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In North America, the rate of migrant workers is increasing every year. Migrant workers are mostly from Mexico and moving to the United States and Canada, the reason that they immigrant to other countries may vary. On one hand, their country’s own problems push them to leave and move to other countries, for example, unstable economic, political unrest, large population and low employment rate. United States and Canada are the two biggest and developed countries in North America, and geographically, they are close to Mexico, which attracts Mexican people to immigrant and try to work in these two countries no matter legal or illegal. As a third world country, Mexico is experiencing many problems from inside and outside, there are not so many

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Even though opportunities lay within European countries, a problem exists with asylum seekers in the workforce and health services. “Work permits are hard to obtain, forcing families deeper into poverty;and health services have become increasingly scarce, as host governments face resource and financial pressures”(1). If work permits are difficult to obtain, then countless refugees cannot work, and in turn, they cannot make money. This means the refugees would run out of the money they already had, and would go into poverty. Likewise, health services being scarce means when a person becomes sick, that person would not receive the medical attention he or she requires.

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Migrants are driven to such extremes that they are prepared to put their lives and their childrens/ family members in overcrowded vans or old boats that could easily come apart under the strain of dozens of migrants. The number of human deaths due to trying to cross to via the meditteranean for example continues to rise. Despite this obvious crisis needing immediate attention from Europe, Europe seems more concerned in implementing barriers at borders of major countries instead of realising that these are human beings also with rights. Their needs to be correct legislation to protect the rights of these human beings. A life is a

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