Challenging Employer Control within the H-2A and H-2B Visa Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan Moorefield (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 684 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 241-254 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716219856854 |
| OpenAlex | W2960797458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
Migrants holding H-2A and H-2B visas-contracted labor migrants-predominate in the new migration system that has emerged between Mexico and the United States. These migrants have been growing numerically in an era when net Mexico-U.S. migration has fallen to zero and undocumented migration is negative. These migrants are committed to contracts that require them to work for one employer, at a specified job, in a particular place, for a set duration of time, or risk loss of legal status and deportation. When visas were scarce, as they have been historically, this effectively gave employers monopoly over their contracted workers. This article describes the current system, particularly with respect to the U.S. labor market and the geography of both Mexico and the United States. With more employers now seeking H-2A and H-2B workers, the current moment may provide migrant workers with greater leverage to challenge the dominance of labor contractors and employers by moving among firms, industries, markets, and states from one contract to the next
Business · Demographic economics · Deportation · Dominance (genetics) · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Leverage (statistics) · Market economy · Migrant workers · Monopoly · Political science · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Generational Disparities in Physically Strenuous and Hazardous Work Conditions
The Doctrine of Fragmentation–Reconstitution in Visa Classes, Accumulation, and the Socio‐Political Value of Migrant Governmentality
The Tradeoff of Temporariness
The New System of Mexican Migration
Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |