RE: worker isolation query

[Guest guest]

Hi Ted:

Our farmworker health research team headed by Rick Mines recently returned

from conducting worker interviews in northern San Diego County. Workers are

very isolated here and often live in makeshift shelters in the hills. These

workers, while very close to the border, are now afraid to risk returning to

Mexico for their needs. The Vista Community Clinic has been addressing

their isolation via a mobile outreach bus. We are currently working to gain

better cooperation with growers to help break down the level of isolation

and lack of access to care.

I recently read in the NY Times about rising coyote fees also acting as an

impediment on cross border movement.

Regards,

Lighthall Ph.D.

Executive Director

California Institute for Rural Studies

P.O. Box 2143 (U.S. Mail)

221 G Street, Suite 204

, CA 95616

Tel: (530)756-6555

Fax: (530)756-7429

dlighthall@...

-----Original Message-----

From: ted knutson [mailto:dcreporter@...]

Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 6:23 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] ? From Reporter

Right after Sept.11, there was speculation that since

border security would be tightened more migrants would

stay here over the winter instead of going home

(figuring they could not come back).

Any anecdotal evidence whether this has happened?

If it has happened, has this created more demands for

migrant health systems since the longer someone is

here, the greater the chances he/she will be sick

sometime

Ted Knutson

Editor

Community Health Funding Report

301-588-6380 x. 132

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[Guest guest]

I am right now in central Guanajuato and in this small village

(Urireo) with a long history of migration to Chicago, Texas and

Florida, folks have told me that only about one half of those who

usually return came back this year. Women whom I have interviewed

shared with me that their husbands felt it was too risky to come home

preferring to `wait and see`.

A

> Hi Ted:

>

> Our farmworker health research team headed by Rick Mines recently

returned

> from conducting worker interviews in northern San Diego County.

Workers are

> very isolated here and often live in makeshift shelters in the

hills. These

> workers, while very close to the border, are now afraid to risk

returning to

> Mexico for their needs. The Vista Community Clinic has been

addressing

> their isolation via a mobile outreach bus. We are currently working

to gain

> better cooperation with growers to help break down the level of

isolation

> and lack of access to care.

>

> I recently read in the NY Times about rising coyote fees also acting

as an

> impediment on cross border movement.

>

> Regards,

>

>

>

> Lighthall Ph.D.

> Executive Director

> California Institute for Rural Studies

> P.O. Box 2143 (U.S. Mail)

> 221 G Street, Suite 204

> , CA 95616

> Tel: (530)756-6555

> Fax: (530)756-7429

> dlighthall@...

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: ted knutson [mailto:dcreporter@...]

> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 6:23 AM

>

> Subject: Re: [ ] ? From Reporter

>

>

>

> Right after Sept.11, there was speculation that since

> border security would be tightened more migrants would

> stay here over the winter instead of going home

> (figuring they could not come back).

> Any anecdotal evidence whether this has happened?

> If it has happened, has this created more demands for

> migrant health systems since the longer someone is

> here, the greater the chances he/she will be sick

> sometime

>

> Ted Knutson

> Editor

> Community Health Funding Report

> 301-588-6380 x. 132

>

> __________________________________________________

>