Settlers and Sojourners: The Case of Mexicans in the United States

Chávez, Leo R.

doi:10.17730/humo.47.2.c3w84373x825tqg2

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“…Farmworkers are in the United States to work, to support themselves and any family members who are with them, and to provide financial support for family members who remain in their home communities (21,22). Farmworkers work by the hour or by piece rate, and they do not receive paid time off for health care.…”

Section: Barriers To Farmworkers Accessing Health Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Delivery of Health Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

Arcury¹,

Quandt

2007

Annu. Rev. Public Health

330

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Farmworkers are low-paid, uninsured employees in an extremely hazardous industry, and they provide an essential service for U.S. society. This review evaluates the delivery of health services to farmworkers. It describes the farmworker population in the United States, noting characteristics (e.g., migratory and immigration status) that limit their access to and utilization of health services. It describes the health services needs of this population, including occupational health, mental health, oral health, and chronic disease treatment. Cultural, structural, legal, financial, and geographic barriers to health services utilization are described. Existing research on health services utilization among farmworkers is discussed. Programs that have been developed to address the barriers to health services utilization among farmworkers are reviewed. Finally, research needed to improve knowledge of farmworker health services utilization is suggested. These research needs include formal evaluations of existing programs and basic research to characterize the health services utilization patterns of farmworkers.

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Section: Barriers To Farmworkers Accessing Health Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Delivery of Health Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

Arcury¹,

Quandt

2007

Annu. Rev. Public Health

330

362

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“…Family networks act as immediate intimate moral support and not just transmigrant economic and cultural networks as argued by others (Arizpe, 1981;Chavez, 1988;Cornelius, 1989;Suarez Orozco, 1998a). Indeed, studies centering the traveler emphasize the importance of economic and social networks utilized by those moving from community to community without taking into account the very important task social networks at home have in maintaining the healthy existence of the awaiting family (Ahern et al, 1985;Guerra, 1998).…”

Section: Campesinas Who Stay Behind: Ideologically Accommodating Conmentioning

confidence: 98%

Global Restructuring, Transmigration and Mexican Rural Women Who Stay Behind: Accommodating, Contesting and Transcending Ideologies

Galván

2008

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In a time when globalization has escalated the migration of groups of people there is still little known of the families and communities that stay behind. Based on over five years of ethnographic research with campesinas (rural Mexican women) in a highly migratory part of Central Mexico, this article examines the manner in which campesinas who stay behind as their husbands migrate are implicated in global processes. As a result of the movement of spouses to and from the United States new ideas, capital, bodies, and information are introduced that alter the roles and perspectives of women who stay behind. From a gendered glocal framework that links global and local processes and considers power relations stretched across various spaces and amongst gender relations, the author examines how women learn to accommodate, contest, and transcend their transmigrant state and changing ideologies. Women's integration in a non-governmental organization, reliance on family networks and cultural traditions, among others, help maintain their integrity and wholeness as single mothers, group leaders, and community participants.En una época en la que la globalización ha incrementado la migración de grupos de personas, es poco lo que se sabe de las familias y comunidades que se quedan atrás. En base a más de 5 años de investigación etnográfica con campesinas (mujeres rurales mexicanas) en un área de alta migración del centro de México, este artículo analiza la manera en que las campesinas que se quedan atrás mientras sus esposos migran, ha implicado en los procesos globales. Como resultado de la migración de los maridos hacia y desde los Estados Unidos, se introducen nuevas ideas, capital, personas e información, los cuales alteran la función y perspectiva de las mujeres que se quedan atrás. Desde un marco global de género que enlaza los procesos locales y globales y que considera las relaciones de poder que se extienden a través de varios espacios y entre las relaciones de género, el autor analiza la manera como las

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“…In the 1980s, Durand (2004) and Massey (1987) addressed institutionalized Mexican migration processes through the Bracero Program in their foundational work with the Mexican Migration Project, while Chavez (1988) used the term "floating migration" to identify Mexicans' migratory patterns to the United States due to new globalized corporations' increasing need for cheap labor. The term "floating" also refers to the nature of the migratory experiences of workers, who come to the cities in search of work and return to their homes in search of a meaningful life (Zhang 2002, 314-5).…”

Section: Floating Migration Education and Globalization In The Us Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Floating migration, education, and globalization in the US Caribbean

González

Ríos-Villarini

2012

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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This article follows a research project that collects oral histories of bilingual education teachers from Puerto Rico who migrated to the US Virgin Islands in the late twentieth century. The teachers' oral histories are used as a case study that provides in-depth analysis of competing discourses related to education and globalization in these two US Caribbean territories. The paper begins by examining intersections between migration and globalization in the Caribbean. Analysis of oral teachers' accounts of events experienced in both islands is provided, with a focus on how they dealt with tensions tied to floating migration, constructions of "otherness," language use, and racial formations in their articulation of transnational identities and cultural differences.

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Settlers and Sojourners: The Case of Mexicans in the United States

Cited by 94 publications

References 16 publications

Delivery of Health Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

Delivery of Health Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

Global Restructuring, Transmigration and Mexican Rural Women Who Stay Behind: Accommodating, Contesting and Transcending Ideologies

Floating migration, education, and globalization in the US Caribbean

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