India's internal migrants and the first wave of COVID-19: The invisibility of female migrants.

This article highlights the plight of India's internal migrants during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, when media images depicted scores of these migrants hustling to return home. Using literature and newspaper searches, the article describes background factors influencing the large flows of internal migrants and the complexities of accurately defining and studying them. The study spotlights the lack of attention paid to female migrants and how gender remains a neglected dimension of migration, even though the challenges faced by female migrants are far more acute during migration, postmigration, the pandemic lockdown, and the economic fallout likely to occur following the pandemic.

The invisibility of farmworkers: Implications and remedies.

This article highlights the invisibility of farmworkers in Michigan, a state dependent on migrant labor for more than one hundred years. The study describes migrant housing camps using data from fieldwork, visits to housing camps, and the shadowing of outreach staff from service organizations. Although regulated, accommodations are minimal, substandard, and overcrowded, affecting the health and well-being of workers. The study describes what farmworkers do in their scant evening hours, the vulnerability of H-2A guest workers, the meticulousness accompanying outreach, and how farmworkers are visible to outreach staff. The study concludes by highlighting how farmworkers are just as invisible as are their housing camps, their contributions to the food movement, and their erasure from historic tales and promotional materials in local tourist towns, which stress the contributions of only some groups. The article underscores the value of outreach, the outstanding work performed by outreach staff, and avenues for increasing the visibility and advocacy on behalf of farmworkers.

Este artículo resalta la invisibilidad de los trabajadores agrícolas en Michigan, un estado que hace más de cien años depende de la mano de obra migrante. El estudio describe los campamentos de vivienda para inmigrantes usando los datos obtenidos del trabajo de campo, las visitas a los campamentos y el acompañamiento al personal de alcance comunitario de organizaciones que ofrecen servicios. Aunque regulada, la vivienda consta de unidades mínimas, de calidad inferior y propensas al hacinamiento, lo que afecta la salud y el bienestar de los trabajadores. El estudio describe lo que suelen hacer los trabajadores agrícolas durante sus pocas horas libres de la tarde, la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores invitados con visas H-2A, la minuciosidad que caracteriza el alcance comunitario y cómo los trabajadores agrícolas son visibles para el personal de alcance. El estudio concluye resaltando que los trabajadores agrícolas son tan visibles como lo son sus campamentos de vivienda, sus aportaciones al movimiento alimentario y su exclusión de los relatos históricos y de los materiales publicitarios en los pueblos turísticos locales, que solo acentúan las aportaciones de ciertos grupos. El artículo subraya el valor del alcance comunitario, el trabajo excepcional que desempeña el personal de alcance y las vías para aumentar la visibilidad y la defensa de los trabajadores agrícolas.