U.S. National Institutes of Health

Health aide Dorothy Press visits a migrant family in a migrant workers’ camp outside Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for Public Health Service World, 1966

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

U.S. agriculture has depended on migrant labor for over a century. Whether workers are citizens, temporary migrants, or immigrants, most face low wages, dangerous health conditions, and a lack of medical care.

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