About Migration Dialogue

Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.

Contact us at migrant@primal.ucdavis.edu.

Rural Migration News: ALRB, Strikes

The ALRB issued five decisions in 2020, and none in 2021. Administrative law judges issued two decisions. In Cinagro Farms, the ALJ concluded that a vegetable harvest crew was unlawfully fired in March 2017 for requesting pay stubs with required deduction information. Cinagro (organic spelled backwards) countered that the crew quit when their FLC Mike’s or Art’s Labor Contractor did not show up to supervise them, even though they had become Cinagro employees.

The ex- Cinagro workers went to work picking blueberries at Silent Springs in March 2017. The ALJ concluded that the crew was fired or not rehired for complaining about the lack of pay stub information, and ordered Cinagro to rehire the crew with back pay for any lost wages.

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1. Farm Labor in the 1930s
2. Dust Bowl Migration
3. US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
4. Mexico: Dual Nationality, Politics
5. Big Six Produce Companies
6. California: FLC Employment Down and Wages Up in 2020
7. 3 Decades of NAWS Data
8. Northern Europe
9. Braceros: History, Compensation
10. Prop. 187 Approved in California

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  Rural Migration News

  Rural Migration News summarizes the most important migration-related issues affecting agricultural and rural America, and is produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations.

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  Rural Migration News Blogs

  Rural Migration News blogs examine a particular farm labor, migration, or trade issue, and are produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations.

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  Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports

  The US imports over half of its fresh fruit and a third of its fresh vegetables, mostly from Mexico. This project, led by the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute and supported by the Walmart foundations, strengthens protections for Mexican workers employed throughout North America agriculture and works with stakeholders to implement evidence-based policies that improve worker protections.

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  Migration News

  Migration News was a monthly and later quarterly summary of the most important migration issues in the US, Europe, and Asia that was produced between 1994 and 2014 with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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  Sloan West Coast Program On S&E Workers

  The Sloan Program on Science and Engineering Workers supported researchers interested in how affected US workers employed in IT-related occupations between 2007 and 2014 with the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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  Changing Face & UFW Contracts

  The Changing Face project assessed the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities in California and other states between 1994 and 2016 with the support of the Farm and Rosenberg Foundations.

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  Research & Seminars

  Migration Dialogue organized seminars for opinion leaders to discuss comparative migration issues between 1993 and 2004 with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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