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ArticleLatino studies2022

The invisibility of farmworkers: Implications and remedies.

Kennedy Saldanha

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Article in Latino studies, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Agricultural Worker Housing: A Review and a New Framework for Action.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Kennedy SaldanhaEastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article highlights the invisibility of farmworkers in Michigan, a state dependent on migrant labor for more than one hundred years. The study describes migrant housing camps using data from fieldwork, visits to housing camps, and the shadowing of outreach staff from service organizations. Although regulated, accommodations are minimal, substandard, and overcrowded, affecting the health and well-being of workers. The study describes what farmworkers do in their scant evening hours, the vulnerability of H-2A guest workers, the meticulousness accompanying outreach, and how farmworkers are visible to outreach staff. The study concludes by highlighting how farmworkers are just as invisible as are their housing camps, their contributions to the food movement, and their erasure from historic tales and promotional materials in local tourist towns, which stress the contributions of only some groups. The article underscores the value of outreach, the outstanding work performed by outreach staff, and avenues for increasing the visibility and advocacy on behalf of farmworkers.

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FarmworkersFood movementsGuest workersInvisibilityMigrant labor campsOutreachStructural violence

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PMID35194408
PMCPMC8853028

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