Sentences with phrase «of migrant farmworkers»

She conducted extensive qualitative research on the lives and struggles of migrant farmworkers in the United States through immersive fieldwork and hundreds of interviews.

Growing up as a child of a migrant farmworker family from South Texas, she began working in the fields at the age of 12, where she continued working until she graduated from high school.

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Some of these laws, like the federal Migrant and Seasonal Protection Act (MSPA) only apply to farmworkers.

This subsection shall be administered in coordination with other programs serving migrant agricultural workers and seasonal farmworkers, including programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education ACT of 1965, section 311 of the Economic Opportunity ACT of 1964, the Migrant * Health ACT, and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration ACT omigrant agricultural workers and seasonal farmworkers, including programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education ACT of 1965, section 311 of the Economic Opportunity ACT of 1964, the Migrant * Health ACT, and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration ACT oMigrant * Health ACT, and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration ACT of 1963.

Prior to working at APEN, Vivian spent seven years advocating for statewide policy, legislation, and budget funding for immigrants, communities of color, migrant farmworkers, and women.

Migrant farmworkers do some of the most dangerous work in Ontario yet they are heavily precluded from obtaining their rights to workers» compensation.

Director of the clinic, JoNel Newman was familiar with this issue as she had worked at Florida Legal Services before coming to Miami Law and had litigated a case for the Migrant Farmworkers Justice Project where a hospital had repatriated a Guatemalan national because his care was deemed too expensive for the hospital to shoulder.

Community Health Centers are not - for - profit providers of health care to over 25 million people, including health centers serving migrant and seasonal farmworkers, homeless and other special populations in urban and rural, public housing and school based settings.