Guestworkers from Policy and Field Perspectives: Problems with the solution.
Date:
Nov 30, 2007
Description:
Recent proposals for comprehensive immigration reform included discussions of expanded guestworker programs. The nation's current guestworker programs for primarily low-wage, low-skilled workers, the H-2A (for agricultural workers) and the H-2B program (for nonagricultural workers) have been controversial and challenged on a number of grounds.
This briefing will feature a talk by Dr. David Griffith (East Carolina) based on over twenty years of research on the H-2A and H-2B programs. His presentation will examine how the program has evolved in employment settings, including social and cultural developments in the regions where H-2 workers are employed, and how workers have complied with and resisted the terms of their employment.
In addition, Dr. Elzbieta Gozdziak (Georgetown) will discuss the effects of global and local factors on the demand for temporary and permanent low-skilled workers in the rural Shenandoah Valley.
This briefing will be held at the Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersy Avenue, NW.
McDonough Hall, Room 437, from 8:30-10:00am. Breakfast will be available from 8:00-8:30.
This Policy Briefing is brought to you by the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM). This three-year program, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, examines the role of Temporary Worker Programs (TWPs).
Instructions:
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