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Language barriers, isolation, poverty, and immigration status are just a few of the reasons that farmworkers in North Carolina have difficulty obtaining basic services. Due to these barriers, legal aid organizations, labor unions, migrant health clinics, churches, and other advocacy and service organizations make special efforts to serve farmworkers

Tenancy Rights
Many groups who reach out to migrant farmworkers living in labor camps encounter resistance from growers that employ farmworkers. In NC, the majority of migrant workers live in employer controlled housing. This housing may be surrounded by NO TRESPASSING signs, demanding that visitors stay away. Growers may appear at labor camps during outreach visits and demand that visitors leave. More often, they simply inform workers and their families that they cannot receive particular visitors.

Fortunately, North Carolina law is clear that workers living in employer controlled house, have a right to receive visitors of their choosing. This means that migrant farmworkers' employers may not prohibit the visits of outreach workers or any other person whom workers wish to receive.

To read an analysis of the law protecting migrant farmworkers' rights as tenants, read the Farmworker Unit memo entitled Farm Workers’ Rights to Visits by Legal Advocates and Other Providers