[PDF] Shedding light on the working conditions of immigrant women workers in Tucson
Every day in Tucson, hotels and houses are cleaned, food is prepared, babies and the elderly are cared for, and countless other jobs are attended to by a little seen workforce: low-wage immigrant women workers...Over the past seven years, the Bacon Immigration Law & Policy Program of the
University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law has worked closely with this population through a legal clinic, the Workers’ Rights Clinic, specifically focused on low-wage immigrant workers. This report is an attempt to document, in broad strokes, the recurring hardships facing immigrant women workers that the Workers’ Rights Clinic witnesses....[T]his report identifies five concerns repeatedly described by the women surveyed and interviewed: Underpaid...Overworked...Unsafe...Abused...[&] Exploited...Our policy recommendations are summarized below and described in more detail in Section V...