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ERIC Number: ED279438
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1984-Apr
Pages: 92
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Migrant Farmworkers in Delaware.
Delaware Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Dover.
The Delaware Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights examined housing, employment, and health among the state's more than 1,500 migrants. Committee findings indicated: (1) there is no accurate count of migrants in the state or migrants in need of housing on a seasonal basis; (2) Delaware has pursued an aggressive policy of upgrading and enforcing housing standards governing migrant labor camps; (3) 80% of all growers utilize the state clearance system to recruit migrant workers, thereby providing greater assurances of adequacy of available migrant housing; (4) an undetermined number of migrants are housed in unlicensed camps that do not provide decent, safe, and sanitary accommodations and are beyond the scope of state and local regulations; (5) during 1983, 11 farm labor contractors violated the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act by failing to disclose conditions of employment, maintain required records, and/or provide wage statements to workers; (6) frequency and severity of migrant employment problems are decreasing; (7) alcoholism is considered the major Delaware migrant health problem and is directly related to the lack of recreational opportunities; and (8) Delaware offers a progressive system of health care services through public health clinics, rural ministries, private doctors, and private hospitals. (NEC)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - General
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Delaware Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Dover.
Identifiers - Location: Delaware
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A