Labor and Employment Research Fund

This research project was developed following the program determined in its initial proposal, i.e., the research activities were undertaken as it was planned. In general terms they consisted in what is described below.

This project questioned the degree the settlement process could constitute a condition that furthers farmworkers’ citizenship practices, framing opportunities for participation in rural community’s political and civil institutions. In order to address this main question I initiated my research pursuing the following objectives:

­ to identify political and civil institutions, as well as public arenas by which people, in this case farmworkers, make claims to community membership, forcing the inclusion of their agendas and concerns;

­ to assess the extent and scope to which local political and civil institutions include farmworker agendas and concerns.

­ to determine how the settlement of farmworkers affects notions of local membership and defines the limits of citizenship practices.