Executive Summary Immigrant and migrant farmworkers from Mexico and other countries are large and growing in number and in importance to U.S. agriculture, but they often are not counted in the decennial census due to high mobility, illegal status, and/or unconventional housing. This report is based on ethnographic research conducted in California's Santa Maria Valley, an active agricultural are...

BACKGROUND Internal labour migration is an important and necessary livelihood strategy for millions of individuals and households in India. However, the precarious position of migrant workers within Indian society may have consequences for the health of these individuals. Previous research on the connections between health and labour mobility within India have primarily focused on the negative ...

Recent research (re)emphasizing the role of the state and the institutional perspective generally neglects socialist economies. At the same time, feminist studies on migration rarely focus on mobility in transitional contexts. Informed by these two bodies of literature, this paper examines how the post-Mao state in China has fostered a migrant labor regime and the incorporation of young, single...

This volume has three aims. First, it brings new work on Filipinos and the Philippines from an emerging generation of scholars into dialogue with contributions from more established UK-based scholars. Our contributors thus include Filipinist academics partly trained in the UK and UK scholars who have recently begun to work on Filipino themes. Second, though not exclusively focused on that count...

THE CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES OF WOMEN'S LIVES: SHIFTING FAMILIES...4 WOMEN'S WORK: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF HIDDEN COSTS...7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD CARE: A CALL FOR INNOVATION...9 PROGRAMMATIC ISSUES...12 THE NEED FOR A RANGE OF OPTIONS...13 CHILD DEVELOPMENT...18 POLICY AND PROGRAMME IMPLICATIONS: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED APPROACH...21 PROGRAMMES IN BRIEF: THE INTERSECTING NEEDS OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDRE...

Rapeepong Suphanchaimat and colleagues present the plight of migrant workers in the fishing industry in Southeast Asia and discuss challenges in providing for their health and safety.

For more than half a century, California has led the nation in agricultural production, supplying over 50% of the nation's fruits, nuts, and vegetables, while exporting 20% of its produce to feed the world. This harvest generated almost $27 billion in gross income in 2000, with an estimated $100 billion in related economic activity. Unlike much of the nation's agriculture, which has been transf...

The government of Norway ratified this Council of Europe Convention on the Legal Status of Migrant Workers on February 3, 1989.