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Migration patterns of hired crop farmworkers, fiscal 1991–2022

  • Farm Labor
A stacked bar chart shows the different mMigration patterns of hired crop farmworkers, fiscal 1991–2022. The categories are Newcomer; Migrant: shuttle; Migrant: follow the crop; and Nonmigrant: settled.

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Eighty three percent of hired crop farmworkers are not migrant workers but are considered settled, meaning that they work at a single location within 75 miles of their home. This share is up from 41 percent in 1996–98, reflecting a profound change in the nature of the crop farm workforce.

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