March 4th, 2013 at 11:55AM
The majority of women farmworkers interviewed in 2010 by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Human Rights Watch had experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault, which ranged from verbal abuse to rape. One 2010 study published in the journal Violence Against Women estimated that as many as 80 percent of women farmworkers in certain areas of the country have been sexually harassed or assaulted on the job. It’s so bad on some farms in Florida and California that women call the fields “the green motel” or “the field of panties. —

Joseph Sorrentino, Undocumented Farmworkers Make “Perfect Victims” for Sexual Harassers and Abusers

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Link to SPLC study

Human Rights Watch study
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59 notes Source: rhrealitycheck.org #sexual violence#sexual harassment#sexual assault#undocumented immigrants#farming
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