Abstract
The occupational sub-group of female indigenous migrant industrial farmworkers in Baja California and California is confronted with a number of social difficulties such as language barriers, inadequate health care, and reduced workers’ rights, constraints which make it difficult for them to experience a quality of life that may otherwise be available to them. Qualitative research methods, including individual and group interviews, were used to assess working conditions, health and health care among groups of women in San Quintin, Baja California and Oxnard, California. Female workers in both places describe arduous work days that often involve pesticide exposure, unhygienic working conditions, and a lack of basic workers’ rights. Physical complaints include musculoskeletal problems, sunstroke, and skin problems. Access to care, communication with healthcare personnel and general quality of care, are problematic for both groups of workers. Results are interpreted in terms of the patterned social positionality that contributes to structural vulnerability in the industrial farm setting of each country, and that results in abusive labor practices, chronic health conditions, and poor continuity of health care.
Presenters
Christine von GlascoeLourdes Camarena-Ojinaga
Full time Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Administrativos y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Baja California, Mexico Evarista Arellano-garcia
Concepción Martínez-Valdés
Full time Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Administrativos y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Baja California, Mexico
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female migrant farmwork
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