Worker's centers: A case study about immigration, work and representation in United States

The issue of migration is a theme that spans many fields of research. We will seek to reflect the theme of migration, in agricultural scope, through the temporary work, as well as the relationships and work conditions on various forms of workers in the current context of global agribusiness. We focus our eyes on the West Coast region of California / USA, featured as one of the leading producers of fruits and vegetables in the U.S. We aim to understand from the context of migrant Mexican labor to the U.S. after the 1970s, the deterioration of living conditions of migrants, and especially to understand how they have been organizing in resistance movements. Our hypotheses is that migration is the result of several effects on social relations of subordination and power, as well as aspirations, desires, income support and family life projects that comprise the complex output frames of decisions of migrants. This path does not proceed unilaterally, or stripped of grounds of opposition. Several models of resistance in search of citizenship and social and economic rights are created as we watch the way the conflict capital and labor are expressed. Therefore, we intend to outline an analysis of working conditions of migrants in the field, as well as the heterogeneous field resistance strategies of these workers, based on the Workers' Centers: non-governmental institutions, formed by Latin leaders, which is proposed assist and support migrants in the destination country.