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: Florida, Southeast

Christina Gamez, a bookkeeper for Los Villatoros Harvesting (LVH), in April 2022 pleaded guilty to racketeering in 2016-17 by taking H-2A workers’ passports and requiring them to work for below-AEWR wages. LVH was founded by Bladimir Moreno in 2010 and recruited Mexican H-2A workers to work in Florida and other states before being dissolved in 2019.

Gamez knew that LVH charged H-2A workers in Mexico for US jobs, and used knowledge of these recruitment debts to encourage them to work for below-promised wages in the US.

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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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