Data Research and Reports
FACHC has released Farmworkers in the Southeast, an illuminating report on the working conditions, demographics, health conditions, barriers to care and challenges faced by Farmworkers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. The report includes data obtained from a variety of sources including FACHC’s Southeastern Migrant Health Questionnaire, Impact of Immigration Laws in the Southeast Survey and 2011 Assessment of the Eastern Stream as well as the National Agricultural Workers Survey and U.S. Census of Agriculture. The report is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding more about this vulnerable population. Click Here to access the report.
Disaster Preparedness
In The Eye of the Storm: How the Government and Private Response to Hurricane Katrina Failed LatinosNational Council of La Raza (NCLR), 2006
Health Coverage
An Initial Assessment of the Effects of Medicaid Documentation Requirements on Health Centers George Washington University, May 2007
Health Coverage and Access to Care for Hispanics in "New Growth Communities" and "Major Hispanic Centers" Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, September 2006
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2005 Executive Summary
How Race/Ethnicity, Immigration Status, and Language Affect Health Insurance Coverage, Access to and Quality of Care Among the Low-Income Population Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2003
Health Coverage in Latino Communities: What’s the Problem and What You Can Do About It Families USA, December 2002
Immigrants Eligibility For Medicaid And Schip Families USA, February 2001
Disparities in Health Coverage, Access, and Quality: The Impact of Citizenship Status and Language on Low-Income Immigrants Kaiser Family Foundation
National Immigration Law Center Information on immigrant eligibility for federal benefits and related legal and justice issues.
Housing
The Need for Farmworker Housing in Florida Including 2004 county by county estimates of farmworkers University of Florida, 2005
Housing for Families and Unaccompanies Migrant Farmworkers Housing Assistance Council
Farm Workers Housing and Needs Assessment Study of the Salinas and Pajaro Valleys of California
Human Trafficking
Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States University of California Berkely, September 2004
Immigration and Latino Health
National Advisory Council on Migrant Health 2007 Public Hearings Official Testimony Summary
Immigrants in the U.S. Healthcare System: Five Myths That Misinform the American Public, Center for American Progress, June 2007
A Study of the Characteristics of Families Served by Migrant Head Start Aquirre International
Suffering in Silence California Endowment, 2000
Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy CRS Report to Congress, January 2007
What Accounts for Differences in Use of Hospital Emergency Departments Across U.S. Communities Health Affairs, July 2006
Estimates of Undocumented Immigrants by State Pew Hispanic Center, April 2006
National Day Labor Study University of Illinois, January 2006
The Pew Hispanic Center's Survey of Mexican Migrants March 2005 Executive Summary
Like Machines in the Field: Workers Without Rights in American Agriculture Oxfam America, March 2004
Undocumented Immigrants Facts and Figures Urban Institute, January 2004
The Latina Project: Adolescent and Parent Perceptions of Successful Teen Pregnancy Projects California of Health Promotion, 2003
A Profile of the Low Wage Immigrant Workforce Urban Institute, November 2003
The Needs of Georgia’s New Latinos: A Policy Agenda for the Decade Ahead University of Georgia, 2002
Myths about Immigrants Justice for Immigrants andThe Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform
U.S. Office of Minority Health
Research
Farmworkers in the Southeast Florida Association of Community Health Centers, December 2011 .
Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States, United Farmworkers and Bon Apetit Foundation, March 2011
Profile of Hired Farmworkers 2008 , USDA 2009
Census of Agriculture U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007
Rural Hispanics at a Glance USDA Economic Research Service, 2005
Student Participation in Community Research to Improve Farmworker Environmental Health: Issues for Success Journal of Environmental Education, Winter 2004
National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) U.S. Department of Labor
FACHC's Community Development Data Page
Farmland Information Center Technical Resources A clearinghouse by state, topic and/or type of resource
1997 Profile of Farmworkers by the U.S. Department of Labor
A Study of the Characteristics of Families Served by Migrant Head Start Aquirre International
The Rural Information Center (RIC)
List Serves
Migrant Health Research Facilitates the exchange of migrant health research.
For additional farmworker data you may want to contact some of the national farmworker organizations.
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