The US labor force was 165 million in February 2020, shrank to a low of 156 million in April 2020, and was 164 million in May 2022. Employment ...

Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration ...

One of the most significant trends in farm labor relations is the increasing importance of farm labor contractors (FLCs). There are many reasons for this, the most important being the way FLCs ...

Smuggling is one of the world’s oldest professions. When nation states established borders and sought to regulate traffic across them, they created markets for the smuggling of humans as well as goods ...

Health Care Access in California’s Mexican Immigrant Communities..... 2 MSSA Name..... 3 Population (1990)..... 3 Foreign-born workers are now recognized to be the secret ingredient of the one of the ...

Farm labor contracting, according to the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Protection Act, is the recruiting, soliciting, hiring, employing, furnishing, or transporting any migrant or seasonal ...

The Issue. Implicit in many parts of the Plan of Action from the 1998 Santiago Summit of the Americas Declaration is the need for more consistent and more professional enforcement of laws that have a ...

It has been well over a decade since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) which created the authority to sanction employers who knowingly employ unauthorized aliens.

This report was produced through a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, and Aguirre International, San Mateo, California. Richard Mines, U.S.

In 1975 Governor Edmund G. Brown signed into law the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). The intent and policy of the ALRA was clearly stated in the statute: "It is hereby stated to be the policy ...

Introduction Hired farmworkers are an important part of the agriculture production process. They provide an important source of labor for labor-intensive perishable crop and livestock operations, ...