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Latinx Farmworkers and Farm Work in the Eastern United States: The Context for Health, Safety, and Justice

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Latinx Farmworkers in the Eastern United States

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The context in which farmworkers in the eastern United States (US) labor and live affects their health and safety and the process of achieving justice. This context includes geographic, agricultural, demographic, housing, cultural, and political dimensions. This chapter provides an overview of the current context for farmworkers in the eastern US and defines who is a farmworker for this volume. Although farmworkers in the eastern US became a largely Latinx population in the early 1990s, this population continues to vary in ethnic composition (Latinx, indigenous, non-Latinx) and migration status. The information needed to document each contextual dimension for farmworkers is often unavailable. The lack of information makes it difficult to understand who farmworkers are, their number, their personal characteristics, their exposures and health status, and how best to work toward justice for farmworkers and their families. Recommendations to improve health, safety, and justice include more complete and consistent reporting by state agencies of information they collect for farmworkers in their states and better documentation and reporting of study design by researchers. This information will provide a foundation for understanding diversity in the health and safety of farmworkers and help direct efforts needed to improve social justice.

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Arcury, T.A., Mora, D.C. (2020). Latinx Farmworkers and Farm Work in the Eastern United States: The Context for Health, Safety, and Justice. In: Arcury, T., Quandt, S. (eds) Latinx Farmworkers in the Eastern United States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36643-8_2

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