The state and local agencies responsible for overseeing migrant farmworker housing vary from state to state. Here's a detailed look at how oversight works in Missouri.
Hundreds of migrant workers come to the United States from Mexico and other countries with special H-2A farm visas, but they make up only a fraction of the total number of migrant farmworkers.
Sexual assault and harassment is a common problem when it comes to migrant farm workers. Attorney Karla Altmayer has worked to fight sexual assault in the workplace since 2010. Recently, she held a workshop in Kankakee, Ill., for migrant workers.
Each summer, hundreds of seasonal workers leave their homes in Texas and Mexico and travel more than 1,000 miles north to work in the corn fields of central Illinois. Many of those hundreds make their way to Rantoul, a village of about 13,000 people in Champaign County and the summer home of the Uni
