Importing Poverty - Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America

American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. This book addresses the question by reviewing what is happening on farms and in the towns and cities where immigrant farm workers settle with their families.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Martin, Philip L. Martin
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9780300139174
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13917-4
• No. of pages: 272