Importing poverty? : immigration and the changing face of rural America

Publication Data

• Title Importing poverty? : immigration and the changing face of rural America
• Author Philip L. Martin
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Contents

Immigration to the United States
Agriculture and migrants
California fruits and vegetables
Florida sugar, oranges, and tomatoes
Meat and poultry
Seasonal worker mobility
Migrants : the integration challenge
Labor shortages, mechanization, and food costs
Reforming U.S. immigration policies
Regularize and rationalize farm labor.

Topics

• Immigrants :: United States :: Economic conditions
• Foreign workers :: United States
• Foreign workers :: Government policy
• United States :: Emigration and immigration
• United States

Importing poverty? : immigration and the changing face of rural America by Philip L. Martin. ISBN 9780300139174. Published by Yale University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.