New support groups for farmworkers aim to heal widespread trauma

A migrant farmworker living in the U.S. might endure multiple types of trauma and stress throughout their life. Common workplace experiences include sexual violence and harassment, exposure to pesticides, low pay and limited workplace protections, and fear of being targeted by immigration or other law enforcement officials. Those who fled a violent country before arriving in the U.S. may also have a prior history of trauma and feel relentlessly vigilant about their safety. 

"Those are all traumatic circumstances that they're weighing and carrying every day," says Mónica Ramírez, a civil rights lawyer and founder and president of the Ohio-based nonprofit advocacy organization Justice for Migrant Women.  Read more...

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