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Migrant Farmworker

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Migrant farmworkers are best defined as those individuals who are employed in agriculture, live in temporary housing, and work on a seasonal basis. Currently, there are 3 million migrant farmworkers living in the United States (Bail et al. 2012). The working and living conditions of migrant farmworkers generate great health risk, that major risk of injuries and to their health include pesticide exposure, injuries, dermatological conditions, and heat strokes. The research conducted 5 in-depth, in- person interviews of those farmworkers living in Georgia in 2010. Farmworkers explained how they felt like invisible members of society, very few people knew where labor camps were located, this was the place of residents for many migrant farmworkers.

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