Centro de los Derechos del Migrante

America Giron Carmen Valdés

What is CDM? ▸ Is a non-profit workers’ rights organization that provides support to Mexico-based migrant workers who experience problems with their employment in the United States. ▸ Provides help to defend and protect their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States.

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CDM PROBLEM & CONTEXT Thousands of women are recruited to work in the United States on temporary work visas. They face a misleading recruitment process and lack of transparency.

Migrant worker women are discriminated denied jobs under H-2 visas, segregated into lower-paying roles and exposed to gender-based violence at their workplace.

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Design Challenge HOW MIGHT WE Communicate and educate the public on migrant worker rights and issues they face.

CHALLENGE: Create a set of visuals and graphics to help the public understand some of the key issues that migrant workers from Mexico face and communicate opportunities to influence ways to transform the industry.

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Target Audience Policy Makers Trade Representatives Secretary of Social Relations Allied Organizations

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Design Process

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Design Process

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GROWTH OF H-2A 257,667 H-2A positions for temporary agricultural workers in 2019. This represents an increase from prior years and exponential growth in the program. In 2016, there were 165,741 jobs certified, a dramatic increase from a decade earlier, when only 64,100 jobs were certified. The program has more than tripled in the past ten years.

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➔ 92% of all H-2A visas were granted to Mexican workers (2019) ➔ 3% of all H-2A visas were issued to women (2018)

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Even though women are more likely to get an H-2B visa versus an H-2A visa, women workers’ representation in the H-2B program is paltry. For example, in 2018, the United States issued a mere 12,576 visas to women, while it issued 107,775 visas to men.

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This brief contains findings to date from CDM’s ongoing, cross-visa and cross-sector study on women in temporary labor migration programs, highlighting ways in which temporary labor migration programs systematically serve to directly and indirectly foster discrimination against women throughout the labor migration process.

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Thank You. America Giron, Carmen Valdés