Migrant Farm Workers Research Paper

A migrant farm worker in the United States lives almost and invisible existence. One of the many reasons for this is that Americans never stop to think, or even consider how their food made it to the grocery store and table. Migrant farm workers tend to do the work that many American are not willing to do. The work is either to hard or does not pay enough. The average age of a farm worker is thirty-one years old and is majority male in gender. Many of these migrant farm workers do not have legal status in the United States. In fact the percentage is forty eight percent are legally able to work, while the other fifty two percent have come illegally to the United States. This fact leads to fear of Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS). Which causes them to hunker down and hide. They will avoid doing things in public that may put them in danger of being noticed. The reason they do this is because of the dream to make more money than they could in their home countries for their families.

The median income of a United States migrant farm worker is well below the poverty level at less than seven thousand five hundred dollars. This can cause
The federal government currently supplies grants to one hundred and sixty five of these centers across the United States. (Farmworker Justice, n.d.) Most farm workers are not provided medical on the job, nor are they able to afford it. This causes them to not get the necessary comprehensive and preventive health care that they so desperately need. Often times a farm worker will not want to go to the doctor because they are afraid that their Forman will find out they have an illness and fire them. None of them want to take the chance of getting reported to immigration service so the few clinics that are available to them are not used as often as they should be. Many injuries a year happen to these farm workers and work related deaths are not