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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

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Lorraine Faulds
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Migrant & Seasonal Farmworkers (MSFW): Barriers to Employment Lorraine Faulds, CDF Candidate Photo by Rodrigo Cruz
The stereotypical MSFW Here illegally Cant speak English Hard workers Send most of their money home Will work for the lowest wages Photo by Gosia Wozniacka
Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images Who Are MSFWs? Seasonal Farmworker Migrant Farmworker Migrant Food Processing Worker Worked on a farm during a planting/harvest season or in a food-processing business ≒Migrant means had to travel to get there and is not able to return to permanent residence on the same day Also have industry, time frame, income requirements In SC Most are in Charleston, Clarendon, and Colleton counties 72% are Hispanic or Latino Most are male Most are 22-44 years old
Barriers for MFSWs Language 74% of Latino adults in SC speak English less than very well--also called having Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Highest percentage in the Southeast region LEP affects healthcare, legal issues, employment, and education Photo by Scott Robinson
Barriers for MSFWs Education 41% of all Latinos in SC do NOT have a high school diploma or GED Of those MSFWs registered in SCWOS, only 11% have a high school diploma Over 34% have only a 6 th or 7 th grade education! Photo by Rainer Ehrhardt
Barriers for MSFWs Low Wages Most Hispanics in agriculture work in: Animal Slaughtering/Processing Landscaping Services Crop Production Family income averaged between $15,000 and $17,499 per year (US). These are very low-paying jobs in SC: Slaughterers & Meatpackers $23,390 Landscaping Workers: $21,000 Farmworkers: $18,460 Without more education, this will continue. Photo by Bread for the World
A final thought: The children Photo from The Harvest directed by Roberto Ramano 300,000-400,000 children are employed as farmworkers (US) Often work 10 or more hours a day with sharp tools, heavy machinery, and dangerous pesticides Die at 4 times the rate of other working youth Farmworker children drop out of school in alarming numbers A short 8-minute video showing the life a child farmworker: http://latinalista.com/2013/11/viernes-videobone

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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

  • 2. The stereotypical MSFW Here illegally Cant speak English Hard workers Send most of their money home Will work for the lowest wages Photo by Gosia Wozniacka
  • 3. Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images Who Are MSFWs? Seasonal Farmworker Migrant Farmworker Migrant Food Processing Worker Worked on a farm during a planting/harvest season or in a food-processing business ≒Migrant means had to travel to get there and is not able to return to permanent residence on the same day Also have industry, time frame, income requirements In SC Most are in Charleston, Clarendon, and Colleton counties 72% are Hispanic or Latino Most are male Most are 22-44 years old
  • 4. Barriers for MFSWs Language 74% of Latino adults in SC speak English less than very well--also called having Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Highest percentage in the Southeast region LEP affects healthcare, legal issues, employment, and education Photo by Scott Robinson
  • 5. Barriers for MSFWs Education 41% of all Latinos in SC do NOT have a high school diploma or GED Of those MSFWs registered in SCWOS, only 11% have a high school diploma Over 34% have only a 6 th or 7 th grade education! Photo by Rainer Ehrhardt
  • 6. Barriers for MSFWs Low Wages Most Hispanics in agriculture work in: Animal Slaughtering/Processing Landscaping Services Crop Production Family income averaged between $15,000 and $17,499 per year (US). These are very low-paying jobs in SC: Slaughterers & Meatpackers $23,390 Landscaping Workers: $21,000 Farmworkers: $18,460 Without more education, this will continue. Photo by Bread for the World
  • 7. A final thought: The children Photo from The Harvest directed by Roberto Ramano 300,000-400,000 children are employed as farmworkers (US) Often work 10 or more hours a day with sharp tools, heavy machinery, and dangerous pesticides Die at 4 times the rate of other working youth Farmworker children drop out of school in alarming numbers A short 8-minute video showing the life a child farmworker: http://latinalista.com/2013/11/viernes-videobone

Editor's Notes

  1. Undocumented workers make up about half of the nation's 1 million to 1.2 million farm-labor force (Daniel Gonz叩lez, The Arizona Republic) In the United States last year, more than $120 billion was sent by workers to families abroad - making it the largest sender of remittances in the world. More than $23 billion went to Mexico, $13.45 billion to China, $10.84 billion to India and $10 billion to the Philippines, among other recipients. (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271455/Revealed-How-immigrants-America-sending-120-BILLION-struggling-families-home.html#ixzz2l6RvjC1O) Farm owners have trouble finding enough laborers: H-2A brings in non-immigrant foreign workers temporarily
  2. Construction is 4th Family income: According to the most recent National Agricultural Workers Survey ANYONE KNOW WHAT THE AVERAGE WAGE IN SC IS? WHAT ABOUT THE FEDERAL POVERTY THRESHOLD? Compare to SCs overall average wage of $38,700 And The Federal poverty rate of $23,550 RECAP: Not all stereotypes are truebut some are Barriers include language, education, and low income Children are suffering
  3. Legally, they can work at 12 yrs old Lack of affordable or available childcare forces many parents to bring children into the fields Farmworker children at 4 times as likely to dropout of school