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Roussell Imle Rodriguez Fernandez.En el campo, siempre es asi.Immigrant farmworker legal needs.pdf
Race and Justice (2024)
  • Aaron Roussell, Portland State University
  • Barbara Imle, Portland State University
  • Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez, Portland State University
Abstract
This paper uses a convergent mixed method approach to assess the legal needs of Oregon's immigrant (Spanish-speaking) farmworking population. We adapt an English-language survey into Spanish, ensuring the validity of the quantitative results by employing intercept surveys at farmworkers' housing complexes, recording qualitative data regarding the ensuing social interactions, and generating ethnographic fieldnotes on the interactions, participants, and surrounding environs. We find that immigration is an umbrella category that structures other legal needs, rather than a legal need co-equal with other important categories such as healthcare, employment, housing, discrimination, and harassment. Our mixed methods approach provided rich descriptions of surveyed concerns as well as detecting and explaining the undercounting of categories such as law enforcement contact and sexual harassment.
Keywords
  • immigration,
  • Latin American experience,
  • farmwork,
  • Oregon,
  • legal needs,
  • mixed methods,
  • survey research
Disciplines
Publication Date
September, 2024
DOI
10.1177/21533687241273904
Citation Information
Aaron Roussell, Barbara Imle and Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez. "Roussell Imle Rodriguez Fernandez.En el campo, siempre es asi.Immigrant farmworker legal needs.pdf" Race and Justice (2024)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aaron-roussell/38/