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.
The UFW reported 9,555 members at the end of 2016, up from 8,300 in 2015 but down from a peak 10,300 in 2013. For many years, the UFW reported about 5,000 members, but the count jumped to over 10,000 in 2013.
There were celebrations around the US for the March 31 birthday of Cesar Chavez, founder of the UFW. Current UFW President Arturo Rodriguez said that "70 to 80 percent" of current farm workers are unauthorized, and that only the unauthorized have "the skill, the talent, the stamina or the willingness to do agricultural work today."
Rural Migration News is produced with the support of the Colcom, Farm, and Giannini 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.
The US imports half of its fresh fruit and a quarter of its fresh vegetables. Mexico is a major source of produce imports. This project, led by the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute and supported by the Walmart Foundation, aims to understand production and marketing systems in order to identify the features of the farm labor market that can lead to better and worse conditions for workers employed on Mexican farms that export fresh fruits and vegetables to the US.
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.
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.
The Changing Face project assesses the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities.
Include Opinion Leader Seminars, the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and Transatlantic Migration Policy Issue seminars.
