The Invisible Population
Main West Quad, Duke University
Monday, April 6, 2009
2pm-7pm
An art installation presented by Duke Students for Humane Borders in conjunction with Farmworker Awareness Week.
The Invisible Population display seeks to promote dialogue among the Duke Community on issues of undocumented labor in the United States. For hundreds of years the United States has depended on the work of migrant Latinos but it was not until the 1940’s through the Bracero Program that this relationship was fully recognized. Today, legal guestworkers as well as undocumented migrants serve as the chief source of unskilled labor in the United States. Our economy depends on cheap labor to keep prices low in manufacturing, hospitality, agricultural, construction, and meatpacking industries. Millions of Americans owe their daily comforts to the labor of the undocumented worker, often unknowingly.
It is time for United States citizens to recognize the significance of this seemingly invisible population.
For more information about National Farmworker Awareness Week, visit www.farmworkerawareness.org
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Tony Macias
Assistant Director
Student Action with Farmworkers
Phone (919) 660-3652
Fax (919) 681-7600
Web www.saf-unite.org
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