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Article: Exploring the mental health of Mexican Migrant farm workers in the midwest: psychosocial predictors of psychological distress and suggestions for prevention and treatment.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED (Napolitano & Goldberg, 1998) that there are approximately 5 million migrant farm workers in the United States. Migrant farm workers are defined as individuals who annually migrate from one place to another to earn a living in agriculture, in contrast to seasonal farm workers, who live in one location during the entire year. Migrant farm workers generally live in the southern half of the United States during the winter and migrate north before the planting or harvesting seasons. Three migrant streams have been identified (Barger & Reza, 1994; Goldfarb, 1981). The West Coast stream is primarily composed of Mexican immigrants who return to Mexico or the ...