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The Aspen Institute: Keeping Americans Fed: The Power and Exploitation of Immigrant & Migrant Farming Communities

January 13, 2022 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

The Aspen Institute is hosting a virtual event on Keeping Americans Fed: The Power and Exploitation of Immigrant & Migrant Farming Communities on Thursday, January 13th, from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM.

Immigrant and migrant farm workers play a critically important role in putting food on our nation’s tables, making up an estimated 73% of the agricultural workforce in the United States today. Despite this outsize role in shoring up the national food supply, food insecurity is endemic in the migrant farming community: one recent study of Georgia farmworkers found that 63% of migrant and seasonal workers surveyed struggled to feed themselves and their families, and another in Northern California revealed that farmworkers—particularly those that are undocumented—depend on emergency food as their main food source. Immigrant and migrant farm workers face extraordinary barriers to economic mobility, and they are often rendered invisible by institutions with the power to address unequal and exploitative working conditions. Undocumented workers—who make up approximately 50% of the farm labor workforce—are particularly vulnerable, as they live under the constant threat of arrest and family separation, all while working in extremely difficult and oftentimes dangerous conditions that have only been made more so by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ravages of climate change.

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Date:
January 13, 2022
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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