Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States

Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States.

This report, updated in February 2013, details the systematic exploitation of foreign workers who come to this country for temporary jobs under the nation's H-2 guestworker program. Based on dozens of legal cases and interviews with thousands of guestworkers, it documents how guestworkers are routinely cheated out of wages, forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs, and held virtually captive by employers.

@misc{noauthor_close_nodate,
	title = {Close to {Slavery}: {Guestworker} {Programs} in the {United} {States}},
	shorttitle = {Close to {Slavery}},
	url = {https://www.splcenter.org/20130218/close-slavery-guestworker-programs-united-states},
	abstract = {This report, updated in February 2013, details the systematic exploitation of foreign workers who come to this country for temporary jobs under the nation's H-2 guestworker program. Based on dozens of legal cases and interviews with thousands of guestworkers, it documents how guestworkers are routinely cheated out of wages, forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs, and held virtually captive by employers.},
	urldate = {2017-05-31},
	journal = {Southern Poverty Law Center}
}

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