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 Blog: Covid in Rural America: 2020

The US had 46 million rural or nonmetro residents in July 2019, unchanged from 2010. All US population growth between 2010 and 2019 was in urban or metro areas. The 16 percent rural poverty rate in 2018 was higher than the 13 percent urban poverty rate.

Almost two-thirds of the 3,143 US counties are nonmetro or rural, and most are in the Midwest and southeast.

Most of the 3,143 US counties are nonmetro (grey), and most are in the Midwest and southeast

USDA classifies counties along a continuum based on their population and proximity to urban areas. The nonmetro counties with fewer than 2,500 residents and not adjacent to urban areas (red) are mostly in the Midwest, while the urban counties with over a million residents (green) are in areas with major cities.

Rural counties that are not near urban areas are mostly in the Midwest

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  Rural Migration News

  Rural Migration News is produced with the support of the Colcom, Giannini, and Walmart foundations. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two-years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.

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  Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports

  The US imports half of its fresh fruit and a third of its fresh vegetables, mostly from Mexico. the leading source. This project, led by the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute and supported by the Walmart foundation, is developing a database on Mexican farm workers employed in Mexican export agriculture and in US labor-intensive agriculture.

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  Migration News

  Migration News is produced with the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and UCB Institute of European Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.

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  Sloan West Coast Program On S&E Workers

  This network of researchers hosts seminars on labor and immigration issues affecting science and engineering workers, compiles and distributes information on these issues, and cooperates closely with the NBER's SEWP.

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  Changing Face & UFW Contracts

  The Changing Face project assesses the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities.

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  Research & Seminars

  Include Opinion Leader Seminars, the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and Transatlantic Migration Policy Issue seminars.

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