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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Migrant Farm Workers"”.
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Equality and Cultural Capital for Migrant Farm Workers
… approach, this research investigates Scotland’s migrant farm workers’ experiences not only in employment but also around their social and cultural transitions. The study shows how those experiences resonate with keys themes and concepts in contemporary migration literature that greatly contribute …
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Characterizing Occupational Risk Factors and Kidney Function in Migrant Farm Workers
… disproportionally affecting young agricultural workers with no traditional risk factor such as diabetes, hypertension, high lipoprotein levels, and tobacco usage. Although the risk factors are not yet fully understood, some have been proposed to explain the pattern of this disease, including …
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Culture care values, beliefs, and practices of Mexican American migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors
… culture care values, beliefs, and practices of migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors in context of their temporary living accommodations and work setting in two small towns in east central Indiana. The goal of this study was to generate knowledge regarding culture care …
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Portable housing for Mexican migrant workers
A capable migrant labor force is critical in sustaining the United States' agriculture industry. Yet, migrant farm workers are among the most economically disadvantaged people in the United States (NCFH). The housing available to migrant workers in the United States is typically substandard and …
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Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass
This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The housing complex deals with architecture's relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex …
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This Side Up, Upside Down
… of his older family members, who were all migrant farm workers in California in the mid-twentieth century. Having grown up in Idaho, Theo feels disconnected from his family, and most of all, from his father. The guilt of how he treated his aging father eats away at Theo Cobarde, causing …
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A Respite from the Harvest
In the United States, migrant farm workers are often the lowest paid workers in a multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, and are also often provided substandard housing which lacks the space and basic necessities to live in dignity and hope. After a few years of hard labor and sacrifices, some …
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Mapping the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the Restriction of the SAWP Worker
… contextualize the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I problematize what I suggest is the heightened regulation and subjugation of workers under this labour scheme. I suggest that by more thoroughly understanding the mass exodus of ‘national’, white citizen workers from the …