Mexicans Settling in Upstate New York Are Marginalized

“Mexican farmworkers and their families are settling in rural upstate New York communities in record numbers, often offsetting recent decades of population loss and making upstate much more diverse. However, two-thirds of the newcomers can’t speak or understand English, and most are marginalized in their communities, finds a new Cornell University study.

Seasonal farmworkers in New York used to be primarily African-Americans, but 95 percent of the farmworkers now are Latino, primarily Mexican, and they are increasingly settling down with their families in the farm communities rather than returning to their home countries. New arrivals who left agricultural employment and settled in New York have only nine years of education on average, compared with 13 years for other community members; 28 percent are unemployed, compared with 6 percent of other community members; and their average household income is less than half (about $20,000) that of other community members (about $46,000), the study found….”

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