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...