Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress 2023 EHA Congress 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

A round-up of the ONWARDS phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the novel weekly insulin icodec in people with diabetes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 3/2016

01-06-2016 | Original Paper

Aggression Among Male Migrant Farmworkers Living in Camps in Eastern North Carolina

Authors: Anne E. Kraemer Diaz, Maria M. Weir, Scott Isom, Sara A. Quandt, Haiying Chen, Thomas A. Arcury

Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health | Issue 3/2016

Login to get access

Abstract

The living and working arrangements of migrant farmworkers in North Carolina are shaped by grower provided housing, codified by the US Department of Labor’s H-2A temporary worker program. Growers typically dictate all facets about residences, living conditions, and even food acquirements. Farmworker camps likely contribute to aggression because of the forced relationships among a small group of people that live, work and recreate together for extended time periods. Participants in the study consisted of 371 farmworkers living in 183 camps. The Revised Conflict Tactics Scale was used to assess aggression among migrant farmworkers. Results indicated that aggressive acts were prevalent among the farmworkers, but the frequency of aggressive acts was low. The most common aggressive act was minor psychological aggression. Results also indicated that alcohol misuse was a common characteristic for both victims and perpetrators and the majority of aggressive acts occurred later in the agricultural season.
Literature
1.
Chavez LR. Shadowed lives: undocumented immigrants in American society. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers; 1992.
2.
Arcury TA, Quandt SA. Delivery of health services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Annu Rev Public Health. 2007;28:345–63.CrossRefPubMed
3.
Arcury TA, Marin AJ. Latino/hispanic farmworkers and farm work in the eastern United States: the context for health, safety and justice. In: Arcury TA, Quandt SA, editors. Latino farmworkers in the eastern Unites States: health Safety and Justice. New York: Springer; 2009. p. 15–36.CrossRef
4.
Goffman E. Asylums: essays on the social situations of mental patients and other inmates. New York: Doubleday; 1961.
5.
Zurcher LA. The sailor aboard ship: a Study of role behavior in a total institution. Soc Forces. 1965;43(3):389–400.CrossRef
6.
Casper MJ, Moore LJ. Inscribing bodies, inscribing the future: gender, sex, and reproduction in outer space. Soc Perspect. 1995;38(2):311–33.CrossRef
7.
Collinson D. ‘Surviving the Rigs’ safety and surveillance on North Sea oil installations. Org Stud. 1999;20(4):579–600.CrossRef
8.
Oldenburg M, Jensen HJ, Latza U, et al. Seafaring stressors aboard merchant and passenger ships. Int J Public Health. 2009;54(2):96–105.CrossRefPubMed
9.
10.
Weiss K, Gaud R. Formation and transformation of relational networks during an Antarctic Winter-Over. J Appl Soc Psychol. 2004;34(8):1563–86.CrossRef
11.
Cooper CL, Sutherland VJ. Job stress, mental health, and accidents among offshore workers in the oil and gas extraction industries. J Occup Med. 1987;29(2):119–25.PubMed
12.
Chen WQ, Wong TW, Yu TS, et al. Determinants of perceived occupational stress among Chinese offshore oil workers. Work Stress. 2003;17(4):287–305.CrossRef
13.
Palinkas LA, Suedfeld P. Psychological effects of polar expeditions. Lancet 2008;371 9607:153–163.
14.
Wood J, Schmidt L, Lugg D, et al. Life, survival, and behavioral health in small closed communities: 10 years of studying isolated Antarctic groups. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2005;76 Suppl 6:B89–B93.
15.
16.
17.
Kandel W. A profile of hired farmworkers, a 2008 update. Economic Research Report No. 60, Economic Research Service, US. Department of Agriculture, June. 2008.
18.
19.
North Carolina Employment Security Commission. 2010 estimate of migrant and seasonal farmworkers during peak harvest by County. Raleigh: North Carolina Employment Security Commission; 2010.
20.
Bauer M. Close to slavery: guestworker programs in the United States. Montgomery AL: Southern Poverty Law Center. 2007. p. 1–52.
21.
Villarejo D. The challenge of housing California’s hired farm laborers. In: Marcouiller D, Lapping M, Furuseth O, editors. Rural housing, exurbanization and amenity-driven development: contrasting the “haves” and the “have nots”. Burlington: Ashgate; 2011. p. 193–206.
22.
Steinhorst B, Dolezal JM, Jenkins NL, et al. Trauma in Hispanic farm workers in Eastern North Carolina: 10-year experience at a level I trauma center. J Agromed. 2006;11(3–4):5–14.CrossRef
23.
McDermott S, Lee CV. Injury among male migrant farm workers in South Carolina. J Commun Health. 1990;15 5:297–305.
24.
25.
26.
Straus MA, Hamby SL, Boney-McCoy S, et al. The revised conflict tactics scales (CTS2) development and preliminary psychometric data. J Fam Issues. 1996;17(3):283–316.CrossRef
27.
28.
Bradley KA, DeBenedetti AF, Volk RJ, et al. AUDIT-C as a brief screen for alcohol misuse in primary care. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007;31:1208–17.CrossRefPubMed
29.
Babor TF, Higgins-Biddle JC, et al. AUDIT: the alcohol use disorders identification test: guidelines for use in primary care. In: organization WH editor. 2nd ed. 2001.
30.
Sandberg JC, Talton JW, Quandt SA, et al. Association between housing quality and individual health characteristics on sleep quality among latino farmworkers. J Immigr Minor Health. 2014;16:265–72.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
31.
Straus MA. Cross-cultural reliability and validity of the revised conflict tactics scales: a study of university student dating couples in 17 nations. Cross- Cult Res. 2004;38(4):407–32.CrossRef
32.
33.
Doll RE, Gunderson EK. Group size, occupational status and psychological symptomatology in an extreme environment. J Clin Psychol. 1971;27(2):196–8.CrossRefPubMed
34.
Vallejos QM, Quandt AS, Grzywacz JG, et al. Migrant farmworkers’ housing characteristics across an agricultural season in North Carolina. Am J Ind Med. 2011;54:533–544.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
35.
Ziebarth A. Housing seasonal workers for the Minnesota processed vegetable industry. Rural Sociol. 2006;71:335–57.CrossRef
36.
Holden C. Bitter harvest: housing conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. In: Thompson Jr CD, Wiggins MF, editors. The human cost of food: farmworkers’ lives, labor, and advocacy. Austin: University of Texas Press; 2002. p. 169–93.
37.
Housing Assistance Council. No refuge from the fields: findings from a survey of farmworker housing conditions in the United States. Washington: Housing Assistance Council; 2001.
38.
Steel GD. Polar moods: third-quarter phenomena in the Antarctic. Environ Behav. 2001;23:126–33.CrossRef
39.
Bechtel RB, Berning A. The third-quarter phenomenon: Do people experience discomfort after stress has passed? In: Harrison AA, Clearwater YA, McKay CP, editors. From Antarctica to Outer Space: life in Isolation and Confinement. New York: Springer; 1991. p. 260–5.
40.
Garcia V, Gondolf E. Transnational Mexican farmworkers and problem drinking: a review of the literature. Contemp Drug Probl. 2004;31:129–61.
41.
Caetano R, Galvan FH. Alcohol use and alcohol-related problems among Latinos in the United States. In: Aguirre-Molina M, Molina CW, Enid Zambrana R, editors. Health issues in the Latino Community. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. 2001. P. 282–412.
42.
Galvan FH, Caetano R. Alcohol use and related problems among ethnic minorities in the United States. Alcohol Res Health. 2003;27(1):87–94.PubMed
43.
Grzywacz J, Quandt S, Isom S, et al. Alcohol use among immigrant Latino farmworkers in North Carolina. Am J Ind Med. 2007;50:617–625.CrossRefPubMed
44.
Barling J, Dupre KE, Kelloway EK. Prediction workplace aggression and violence. Annu Rev Psychol. 2009; 60:671–92.
45.
Goldstein JH, Davis RW, Herman D. Escalation of aggression: experimental studies. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1975;31(1):162–70.CrossRefPubMed
46.
Bye EK, Rossow I. The impact of drinking pattern on alcohol-related violence among adolescents: an international comparative analysis. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2010; 29:131–137.
Metadata
Title
Aggression Among Male Migrant Farmworkers Living in Camps in Eastern North Carolina
Authors
Anne E. Kraemer Diaz
Maria M. Weir
Scott Isom
Sara A. Quandt
Haiying Chen
Thomas A. Arcury
Publication date
01-06-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1557-1912
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1920
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0221-1

Other articles of this Issue 3/2016

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 3/2016 Go to the issue

Original Paper

The Role of Health Literacy in Predicting Multiple Healthcare Outcomes Among Hispanics in a Nationally Representative Sample: A Comparative Analysis by English Proficiency Levels

Original Paper

Nativity and Perceived Healthcare Quality

Original Paper

Prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Immigrants

Original Paper

Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in a Migrant Worker Community

Original Paper

Assessing Oral Cancer Awareness Among Rural Latino Migrant Workers

Original Paper

The Health Beliefs of Migrant Farmworker Parents: An Ethnographic Exploration