Consuming Mexican Labor

Mize, Ronald L.; Swords, Alicia

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“…And, the few studies that have investigated premigration employment suggest that channeling facilitates socioeconomic mobility, but they almost exclusively focus on the Mexico-US immigration stream. Mexico-US migration, however, is unique relative to other migration streams and includes a higher concentration of pre-migration employment in a limited number of occupations and industries related to food processing, agriculture, and construction (Massey, Durand, and Malone 2002;Mize and Swords 2010). Here, comparisons with Asian Indian and Filipino/a immigrants present a theoretical opportunity to enrich our understanding of channeling.…”

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Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines

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Kwon

2023

International Migration Review

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National — and local — conversations about immigration are often centered on immigrants’ integration into the US society. One factor that shapes immigrants’ integration is their pre-migration work experience, skills, and training and a series of studies have used “channeling” as a concept to identify immigrants who have worked in the same occupation and/or industry in the destination labor market as they had in the origin labor market, prior to migration. Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) and a simultaneous equation model (SiEM) approach, this article expands on this research by exploring the impact of channeling on wages for Asian Indians, Filipino/as, and Mexicans with lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. Contrary to prior findings on the effects of channeling within specific industries, we find that channeling is associated with lower, not higher, immigrants’ wages. The findings are robust to different definitions of channeling, as the negative effects of channeling hold within industrial sectors and occupational groups. Moreover, the results indicate that channeling is not exclusive to the Mexico–US migration stream, but instead may be a feature of various US-bound immigration streams, including those from India and the Philippines.

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Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines

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Kwon

2023

International Migration Review

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“…82 Meanwhile, after WWII, programs like the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement of 1942, later called the Bracero Program (until 1964), recruited some 2 million workers from the Mexican countryside into US fields as temporary guestworkers. 83 US trade policies in the 1990s, namely the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and later the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), led to the displacement of thousands of peasant famers in Mexico and Central America, significantly increasing new migration flows to the US. 84 Still to this day, farmworkers in the US remain excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, which protects the right to organize, and from overtime pay under federal law.…”

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Contextualising food sovereignty: the politics of convergence among movements in the USA

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Schiavoni

Alonso-Fradejas

2015

Third World Quarterly

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As food sovereignty spreads to new realms that dramatically diverge from the agrarian context in which it was originally conceived, this raises new challenges, as well as opportunities, for already complex transnational agrarian movements. In the face of such challenges, calls for convergence have increasingly been put forward as a strategy for building political power. Looking at the US case, we argue that historically rooted resistance efforts for agrarian justice, food justice and immigrant labor justice across the food system are not only drawing inspiration from food sovereignty, but helping to shape what food sovereignty means in the US. By digging into the histories of these resistance efforts, we can better understand the divides that exist as well as the potential for and politics of convergence. The US case thus offers important insights, especially into the roles of race and immigration in the politics of convergence that might strengthen the global movement for food sovereignty as it expands to new contexts and seeks to engage with new constituencies.

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“…Although net Mexican migration to the United States was reported to have reached zero by April, 2012, this result came only after decades of border crossings that had swelled the Mexican‐American and other Latino population to some 12 million individuals (Passell et al, ). By 2000, many of these had discovered the East Coast, moving in a steady stream as far north as Canada (Mize and Swords, ) and, in the process, upending long‐established demographic patterns, racial certainties, and political fortunes. More than anything else, these migrants hoped to find better jobs than had been available in Mexico, other Latin American countries, and in the western and southwestern states that had traditionally drawn Hispanics to the United States.…”

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Dreaming of the Rural South

Vickerman

2013

Sociological Forum

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Consuming Mexican Labor

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Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines

Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines

Contextualising food sovereignty: the politics of convergence among movements in the USA

Dreaming of the Rural South

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