Team Leader: LauraAnne
Leadership Day(s): Describe to goals of this day and how it relates to the overall research project (three sentences).
Cultural Institution(s) to Assess (Days & Hours of Operation, Location, Time Needed):
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels (Top Priority) https://cbmm.org/
Tilghman Watermen Museum (Secondary Priority)(tilghmanmuseum.org)
Logistics
Lodging (location, price, and explanation):
Meals (location, price, and explanation):
Distance travelled
Rough Timeline of Day (hour by hour)
Person(s) of Interest (to request interview)
(Name, contact info, and explanation)
Other Possible Places and People of Interest Related to the Research Question:
People and places:
Hooper's Island--mentioned in Baltimore Sun article as where migrant workers participate in crab picking
Lindy's Seafood, Old Salty's Seafood crab houses
Emilia M. Guevara--"PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research examines local understandings and cultural variability of chronic illness prevention, causality, and accessibility of treatment among migrant Mexican women in Hidalgo, Mexico, and Maryland, United States"
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
Margarita Marquez from the Hispanic Ministry of St. Mary Refuge of Sinners in Dorchester County
Thurka Sangaramoorthy--"cultural and medical anthropologist at the University of Maryland who has studied immigration here and elsewhere on the Eastern Shore."
Bill Seiling--"executive vice president of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association"
"Dorchester County State’s Attorney William H. Jones is among those who worry that in their isolation, the women could be targets for robbers or other assailants"
Resources:
JW Clayton Co. (Crab picking company)
Chesapeake Multicultural Resources Center https://chesmrc.org/
For All Seasons https://forallseasonsinc.org/services/latino-outreach-education/
https://www.chesapeakeconservation.org/latino-conservation-week-in-the-watershed/
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2017/06/mexican-crab-pickers-along-chesapeake-bay/
^Mentions https://aflcio.org/about/advocacy/legislative-alerts/fact-sheet-why-h-2b-program-bad-working-people
^Linked: "Picked Apart: The Hidden Struggles of Migrant Worker Women in the Maryland Crab Industry"
Sources:
https://www.easternshorepost.com/2021/09/28/op-ed-getting-to-know-shore-migrant-workers/
I’m not here to take anyone’s job’: Mexican crab pickers quietly work in Maryland as immigration debate rages. https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-crab-pickers-20190925-vpgfhcq4uvfvvomgseru64dody-story.html
https://dls.maryland.gov/pubs/prod/InterGovMatters/Demog/Overview-of-Hispanic-Community.pdf
https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-H-2B-Economic-Impact-Study.pdf