Health and safety

Article Abstract:

The American Journal of Industrial Medicine revealed that farmworkers have 59 percent higher risk of leukemia and a 69 percent higher risk for stomach cancer compared to other Latinos. NIOSH is examining the environmental health risks faced by migrant farmworkers and it is concerned about their poor knowledge of English-language skills due to which they rarely understand their rights and thus allow themselves to expose to working conditions they can legally avoid.

Health aspects, Risk factors, Surveys, Leukemia, Stomach cancer, Agricultural laborers, Agricultural labourers

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Background: Rise of migrants

Article Abstract:

Migratory farm labor in the United States began emerging in the mid- to late-19th century, after slavery ended in the South. There were one million migrant farmworkers in the US by the 1940s, down from two million in the 1920s and the number further dropped to 800000 in the 1970s.

History, Demographic aspects, Migrant agricultural laborers, Migrant agricultural labourers

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