{"id":1648,"date":"2018-06-04T21:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2018-06-04T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:01:17","slug":"1648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/06\/04\/1648\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Immigration have to do with Food Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always considered Immigrant rights and food security as two separate issues but after this project, I came to realize that the two are intertwined. At first, my group set out to examine food sovereignty in the US and our local UW community. We found a connection between immigrant farmworkers and their contribution to our own food supply. \u00a0A report released in 2017 noted that the resilience of the US food supply is threatened by the unstable and vulnerable workforce that consists mainly of immigrants. The report on \u201cPublic Health, Immigration Reform and Food System Change\u201d explains that \u201cPoverty, a lack of access to health care, and a fear among undocumented workers seeking health care \u2014\u00a0due to employer retaliation or risk of deportation \u2014\u00a0are broader factors that also contribute to the underreporting of pesticide-related illness,\u201d (Sullivan). These abuses leave farmworkers overworked and underpaid.<\/p>\n<p>After learning these exploitations, my group created posters to share our information and provide resources. I was skeptical of the size of the impact these would have, but after volunteering at the UW food pantry, I met two girls named Abigail and Natalia who took a much greater interest in the information. It turns out they both come from migrant worker families and they have encountered many of the injustices we had been researching. Abigail explained that her family moved specifically from Texas so that her father could work on a farm near Bellingham. We talked about how her family was underpaid for the work they do, and that there are little benefits and no overtime pay. Furthermore, both girls had done regular seasonal farm work themselves when they weren\u2019t at UW. And then it occurred to me that these two girls whom regularly harvest food, we<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">re coming to a food pantry to receive food assistance. This was a perverse realization and it forced me to recognize just how much they are in need of fair wages and equal rights. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1651\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Immigration-flier-1-235x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Immigration-flier-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Immigration-flier-1-176x176.png 176w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Immigration-flier-1-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Citation:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/04\/04\/study-undocumented-farm-workers-put-food-system-risk\/100036382\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always considered Immigrant rights and food security as two separate issues but after this project, I came to realize that the two are intertwined. At first, my group set out to examine food sovereignty in the US and our local UW community. We found a connection between immigrant farmworkers and their contribution to our own food supply. \u00a0A report&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/06\/04\/1648\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}