Migrant workers pick strawberries during harvest south of San Francisco, APRIL 4, 2024. (spiritofamerica via Adobe Stock)
“In the first Trump administration, about 350 thousand people from Central America or Mexico were given these H2A visas to come in temporarily with labor contractors. And many of them seem to have overstayed their visas because their labor is needed. We can’t pick the crops in this country without them.”
This week on the show, we welcome back geographer Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. She is the director of the Center for Refugee Studies at Indiana University and we’ll talk with her about how changes in federal policy, especially around refugees and immigration affect our food system, including prices at the grocery store.
Previous episodes featuring Elizabeth Cullen Dunn:
Present and future foodways in Ukraine
Consolidation Leads To Fragility--Elizabeth Dunn On Meatpacking And COVID-19
Food Is More Than Calories: The Meaning Of Macaroni In A Refugee Camp
Music On this Episode
The Earth Eats theme music is composed by Erin Tobey and performed by Erin and Matt Tobey.
Additional music comes to us from the artists at Unversal Productions Music.
Credits:
The Earth Eats’ team includes: Eoban Binder, Alexis Carvajal, Alex Chambers, Toby Foster, Luann Johnson, Leo Paes, Daniella Richardson, Samantha Shemenaur, Payton Whaley and Harvest Public Media.
Earth Eats is produced, engineered and edited by Kayte Young. Our executive producer is Eric Bolstridge.
