June 2, 2024

Migrant Workers: Their Occupational Health and Safety


Immigrant farm laborers working with an H-2A visa maintain a safe distance on the Fresh Harvest farm on April 27, 2020, in Greenfield, California. / Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Worldwide, immigrant workers have higher rates of adverse occupational exposures and working conditions.


By Dr. Sally C. Moyce
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Montana State University

By Dr. Marc Schenker
Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences
University of California, Davis


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Originally published by Annual Review of Public Health 39 (April 2018, 351-365), DOI:/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-013714, under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.