A Cornell University course includes an outreach component that exposes students to the realities of the lives of migrant farm workers. The unique course is entirely devoted to migrant farm labor in the Americas; the workers who toil at manual labor for low wages without the benefits of collective bargaining or overtime pay. There are an estimated 47,000 migrant workers and their family members in NY and approximately 2.5 million in the U.S. Vernon Briggs, a professor of industrial and labor relations who teaches a section of the class, feels it is a chronically neglected subject and the fundamental problem is migrant workers are treated as second-class citize
See "Cornell students study migrant workers", Mark Johnson, The Boston Globe, March 20, 2005