January 1995, Volume 1, Number 1
Farm Workers
Farmworker Unions
The United Farm Workers (UFW) union held its twelfth
constitutional convention in Fresno, California on September 3-4,
1994. Perhaps more than any
Immigration
Another Bracero Program Considered
On December 13, the Inter-American Institute on Migration and
Labor organized a meeting of 25 farm worker advocates in Washington
DC to discuss the
Devaluation and Emigration From Mexico
Mexican migration to the US, which averaged about 300,000 settlers
and 800,000 to two million sojourners per year over the past decade,
is expected
Other
Population Shares vs Political Power
Latinos in 1994 were 28 percent of California's residents, up from
11 percent in 1970. According to the 1990 COP, 67 of California's 456
cities had
At-Large vs District Elections
California has 456 cities, and more than 400 use the at-large
system of voting in which all candidates for city council and school
board are
Latinos in School
In Santa Ana, Santa Ana Unified's student body is 87 percent
Latino, and nearly three-quarters of its 48,286 students are learning
English as their
Latinos Lack Health Insurance
Latinos are almost twice as likely as other Californians to be
without health insurance, even though 87 percent of uninsured Latinos
are from
Resources
Parlier
Parlier has been described as a Latino community of 10,000 people
created by migrant farm workers--99.5 percent of the 2,400 students
are Latino.
Dinuba and Orange Cove
In rural California, "the political, economic and social exclusion
of Latinos is far greater in that area than in San Francisco or Los
Angeles,"
Guadalupe and Santa Maria
Guadalupe, a city of 5,000 in the northwest corner of Santa
Barbara county that is 80 percent Hispanic, may be a harbinger of the
socio-economic