ABOUT THE LIVE WEBINAR
Health care access challenges for immigrant farmworker families often extend beyond clinics and hospitals, shaping daily life in ways that remain largely unseen. Drawing on 90 interviews and more than 350 hours of ethnographic fieldwork across Pennsylvania's dairy and mushroom industries, this webinar examines how health care exclusion moves through institutions, community networks, and households, with particular impacts on women in mixed-status families. Participants will explore how gaps in formal health care systems shift responsibilities to community support systems and ultimately become unpaid caregiving and reproductive labor within the home. The session concludes with practical considerations for extension professionals, health care practitioners, and policymakers seeking to improve access and support for agricultural communities.
WHEN
September 14, 2026
(11:00 AM-12:00 PM ET)
Register By: September 14, 2026
This event is free of charge.
Who is this for?
- Extension professionals seeking to better understand barriers to health care access in agricultural communities
- Researchers studying immigrant farmworker families, health care access, or rural communities
- Health care practitioners serving agricultural populations and immigrant communities
- Farm service providers who work with or study immigrant farmworker families
What will you learn?
- Recognize how legal and health care exclusions contribute to patterns of gendered care labor within immigrant farmworker families
- Identify the role of the community safety net, including mobile clinics, food pantries, and community organizations, as an intermediary between institutions and households
- Explore how extension, health care, and policy efforts can better support mixed-status farmworker families
This event is being offered at no charge to participants.
Registration is required to receive the link to access the webinar.
A link to the recorded webinar will be emailed to registrants within ten business days after the live event. The recording will be accessible for six months from the event date.