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  Friday, November 07, 2003

Rural Migration News
Department of Agfricultural and Resource Economics
UC Davis
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/index.php

A quarterly newsletter that summarizes and analyzes the most important migration-related issues affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter. Topics are grouped by category: Rural America, Farm Workers, Immigration, Other, and Resources. It is available in print and electronic formats.

The current issue (October, 2003) includes articles such as Data, Mobility, Census - "NASS. USDA reported that there were 1.3 million hired workers employed on US farms the week of July 6-12, 2003, including 75 percent directly hired..." and
H-2A, H-2B, Braceros - "DHS reported that 15,600 H-2A workers were admitted in FY02, down sharply from 27,700 in FY01, while the number of H-2B worker admissions jumped to ..."



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