Documenting and classifying labor: the effect of legal discourse on the treatment of H-2A workers |
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| Authors: | Patricia Garcia |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), GSE&IS Building, Box 951520, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1520, USA
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| Abstract: | The H-2A temporary agricultural worker program is a large-scale governmental program that is touted as a legal and documented avenue for nonimmigrant foreign workers to gain temporary employment in the USA. This paper historically situates the H-2A program within the larger history of American temporary work programs and argues that the H-2A program has inadequately curtailed the exploitation of temporary agricultural workers by focusing on documenting immigration through a lengthy application process and complex classification system, while failing to properly document the employment conditions of temporary agricultural workers once they have arrived in the USA. The analysis of the federal government’s documentation and classification practices exposes how discursive practices are legitimized through the legal codes of two statutory regimes, labor and immigration law, and exposes how these discursive practices create rigid worker classifications that largely structure the debate on immigration and the rights of documented and undocumented workers. |
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