Antipode
Volume 49, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1306-1328

Trafficking in US Agriculture (Article)

Izcara Palacios S.P. , Yamamoto Y.
  • a Unidad Académica Multidisciplinaria de Ciencias, Educación y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico
  • b Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Abstract

Based on a qualitative methodology that includes in-depth interviews with 90 Mexican migrant smugglers and 45 Central American farmworkers, this article analyzes the three separate elements of trafficking in US agriculture, namely acts, means, and purposes. We conclude that some US employers participate in human trafficking by financing or helping to recruit and transport Mexican and Central American migrants to the US by means of “abuse of a position of vulnerability” for the purposes of involuntary servitude, debt bondage, and sex exploitation. © 2017 The Author. Antipode © 2017 Antipode Foundation Ltd.

Author Keywords

United States Migrant smuggling labor trafficking Agriculture Farmworkers

Index Keywords

labor migration agricultural labor agricultural worker Latino people illegal immigrant United States trafficking
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018580619&doi=10.1111%2fanti.12330&partnerID=40&md5=38f6338108c42077a3131707448f0535
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12330
ISSN: 00664812
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English