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Each year, more than half a million migrant children journey from countries around the globe and enter the United States with no lawful immigration status; many of them have no parent or legal guardian to provide care and custody. Yet little is known about their experiences in a nation that may simultaneously shelter children while initiating proceedings to deport them, nor about their safety or well-being if repatriated. Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State examines the draconian immigration policies that detain unaccompanied migrant children and draws on U.S. historical, political, legal, and institutional practices to contextualize the lives of children and youth as they move through federal detention facilities, immigration and family courts, federal foster care programs, and their communities across the United States and Central America. Through interviews with children and their families, attorneys, social workers, policy-makers, law enforcement, and diplomats, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink foregrounds the voices of migrant children and youth who must navigate the legal and emotional terrain of U.S. immigration policy. Cast as victims by humanitarian organizations and delinquents by law enforcement, these unauthorized minors challenge Western constructions of child dependence and family structure. Heidbrink illuminates the enduring effects of immigration enforcement on its young charges, their families, and the state, ultimately questioning whose interests drive decisions about the care and custody of migrant youth.

Migrant agricultural laborers --- Children of migrant laborers --- Migrant laborers' children --- Migrant labor --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Government policy --- Services for --- United States --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Human Rights. --- Law. --- Linguistics. --- Public Policy.

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This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands is essentially the story of the conflicts and contradictions that existed between two agrarian systems, the settler plantation economy and the squatter peasant option. Initially, the latter developed into a viable but much resented sub-system which operated within and, to some extent, in competition with settler agriculture. This study is largely concerned with the dynamics of the squatter presence in the White Highlands and with the initiative, self-assertion and resilience with which they faced their subordinate position as labourers. In their response to the machinations of the colonial system, the squatters were neither passive nor malleable but, on the contrary, actively resisted coercion and subordination as they struggled to carve out a living for themselves and their families.... It is a firm conviction of this study that Kikuyu squatters played a crucial role in the initial build-up of the events that led to the outbreak of the Mau Mau war. —from the introduction.

Migrant agricultural laborers --- Squatters --- Kikuyu (African people) --- History --- History. --- Mau Mau --- Agikuyu (African people) --- Akikuyu (African people) --- Gikuyu (African people) --- Kikuyu tribe --- Wakikuyu (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Occupancy (Law) --- Public lands --- Squatter settlements --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor

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During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex, shifting labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensified pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.

Migrant agricultural laborers --- Foreign workers, Zimbabwean --- Farmers --- Borderlands --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Alien labor, Zimbabwean --- Zimbabwean foreign workers --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- Social conditions. --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- Race relations --- Social conditions --- E-books

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In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of the moment, and transferred for the duration of the job to destinations far away from the home area. His case-study reveals that the circulation of labour is indicative of an employment pattern which dominates both the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author argues that their identity is shaped by both class and caste relations and, despite action by state agencies, nothing of significance has been achieved to improve their quality of life.

Agricultural laborers --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- Rural poor --- Informal sector (Economics) --- Travail noir --- Case studies --- Case studies. --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Agricultural laborers - India - Gujarat - Case studies. --- Migrant agricultural laborers - India - Gujarat - Case studies. --- Rural poor - India - Gujarat - Case studies. --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Migrant labor --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Economic conditions

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"In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans could seek jobs in the United States and its territories despite the anti-immigration policies in place at the time. JoAnna Poblete's Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i takes an in-depth look at how the two groups fared in a third new colony, Hawai'i. Using plantation documents, missionary records, government documents, and oral histories, Poblete analyzes how the workers interacted with Hawaiian government structures and businesses, how U.S. policies for colonial workers differed from those for citizens or foreigners, and how policies aided corporate and imperial interests. A rare tandem study of two groups at work on foreign soil, Islanders in the Empire offers a new perspective on American imperialism and labor issues of the era"--

Migrant agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- Puerto Ricans --- Filipinos --- Labor mobility --- Philippinos --- Pilipinos --- Mobility, Labor --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- History. --- Government policy --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. --- Ethnology --- Migration, Internal --- Labor supply --- Labor turnover --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Agricultural laborers --- Legal status, laws, etc --- E-books --- Boricuas