Florida’s Migrant Worker Industry: How Necessary is this Evil?

Florida’s Migrant Worker Industry: How Necessary is this Evil?

The United States’ of America’s development is rooted in a history of forced, intensive labor —annually, approximately 3 million migrant travel to the United States of America to cultivate much ofthe produce found in one’s local grocery store. One quarter of these aforementioned migrant workers are located in South Florida, with Broward County being home to a notable community of Haitian and Mexican migrant workers alike. The migrant worker industry provides low income laborers across the seas with a means of work — however via the deeply integrated system of debt peonage, immigrant families are often forced into stagnant cycles that result in higher mortality and morbidity rates and anormalization of flagrant worker’s abuses. Within the context of South Florida’s economy, one mustquestion the necessity of this industry offsets the infrastructural violence it has committed.