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Welcoming the Guest: the lives and experiences of H-2A workers in Ohio

KLINE, Anisa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681388721577359

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Geography.
In Ohio, as in the rest of the country, this agricultural guestworker population is increasing every year. Also known as H-2A workers, people with this visa come to the United States every year to work in fields, orchards, and nurseries and return to their home countries at the end of the season. This dissertation uses a mixed-methods approach to understand more about H-2A workers in Ohio. I conducted exploratory research with Department of Labor data, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and designed and administered a survey to 285 H-2A workers throughout the state. The goal was to establish basic demographic information about the agricultural guestworkers in our state, learn more about how they experience their work and life here, and ultimately generate data and analyses that are useful for stakeholders who wish to improve the program.
Kendra McSweeney (Advisor)
Victor Espinosa (Committee Member)
Madhumita Dutta (Committee Member)
Abigail Norris-Turner (Advisor)
Agriculture; Geography; Labor Relations; Latin American Studies
H-2A, Guestworkers, agricultural labor, labor geography

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  • KLINE, A. (2023). Welcoming the Guest: the lives and experiences of H-2A workers in Ohio [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681388721577359

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • KLINE, Anisa. Welcoming the Guest: the lives and experiences of H-2A workers in Ohio. 2023. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681388721577359.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • KLINE, Anisa. "Welcoming the Guest: the lives and experiences of H-2A workers in Ohio." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681388721577359

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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