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.
Florida tomato growers want NAFTA re-negotiations to reduce imports of tomatoes from Mexico. In testimony to the House Agriculture Committee July 26, 2017, the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association said that the cost of producing mature green tomatoes in Florida was $10 for a 25-pound box in 2016-17, and that Mexican producers violated an agreement not to sell similar tomatoes in the US for less than $8.30 a box.
Mexican tomato exports peak in the winter months, but Mexican producers using protected structures export tomatoes and other vegetables to the US year round. US imports of tomatoes increased from 1.2 billion pounds in 2000 to 3.2 billion pounds in 2016, while US tomato production decreased from 2.7 billion to 1.7 billion pounds over the same period.
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.
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.
