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
Florida’s citrus acreage continues to decline, falling to 375,000 acres and 56 million trees in 2022, down from 830,000 acres in 2000. About 60 percent of the state’s orange acreage are valencias, and the value of the 2021-22 citrus crop was $440 million. California has 265,000 acres of citrus, and does not have the huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening disease that has bedeviled Florida citrus since 2005.
Georgia. The federal government charged 28 defendants with forcing H-2A workers to work for them between 2015 and 2021, generating $200 million for themselves from 700 H-2A workers who had to pay for their jobs. The indictment in Operation Blooming Onion alleges that the H-2A workers were housed in substandard conditions and were not paid promised wages.
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- Farm Labor in the 1930s
- Illegal Immigration to South Africa
- Kosovar Refugees
- Dust Bowl Migration
- US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
- Mexico: Remittances, Jobs, Economy
- California: FLC Employment Down and Wages Up in 2020
- Preventing Terrorism
- Mexico: Dual Nationality, Politics
- California: Proposition 187 Unconstitutional
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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.
