[PDF] Temporary Agriculture Work Visa Programs eBook

Author : Carolyn S. Blocker
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780788174476

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The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 created the "H-2A" program, under which employers may bring workers into this country on a temporary, nonimmigrant basis to perform seasonal agricultural work when domestic workers are unavailable. This report presents information on the likelihood of a widespread agricultural labor shortage and its impact on the need for nonimmigrant guestworker and the H-2A program's ability to meet the needs of agricultural employers while protecting domestic and foreign agricultural workers, both at present and if a significant number of nonimmigrant guestworkers is needed in the future.

Author : Odeidra Devon Williams
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2018
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A critical concern of farmers in the United States over time has been the inability to consistently employ reliable domestic laborers to fulfill the needs of their operations. The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Visa Program is the only legal option to allow foreign workers, who have been a staple in supplying farm labor, to work in the U.S. agricultural industry. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the H2-A program on the operations of farmers who have previously used the program and attempt to shed light on the economic conditions within a county that would make using the H2-A program an option. This research summarizes a survey conducted with farmers in the Southeastern U.S. who applied to the H2-A program to obtain workers. A backward stepwise regression is used to analyze the effects of H2-A workers in North Carolina and Georgia.

Author : Lant Pritchett
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1944691065

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In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and the continued employment growth in low skilled, labor intensive industries all contribute to the forces compelling labor to migrate across national borders. Pritchett analyzes the fifth irresistible force of "ghosts and zombies," or the rapid and massive shifts in desired populations of countries, and says that this aspect has been neglected in the discussion of global labor mobility. Let Their People Come provides six policy recommendations for unskilled immigration policy that seek to reconcile the irresistible force of migration with the immovable ideas in rich countries that keep this force in check. In clear, accessible prose, this volume explores ways to regulate migration flows so that they are a benefit to both the global North and global South.