Rate My Professor Phil Martin

Martin held key appointments including the only academic on the Commission on Agricultural Workers assessing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act's effects. He was a member of the Binational Study of Migration (1995-1997) and conducted assessments for Turkish migration to the European Union (1987-1990), immigration's impact on Malaysia’s economy (1994-1995), and unauthorized migration strategies for Thailand (2001-2002). He received UC Davis’s Distinguished Public Service Award in 1994. Martin has authored influential books including Merchants of Labor: Recruiters and International Labor Migration (Oxford University Press, 2017), Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers (Cornell University Press, 2003), and Importing Poverty? Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America (Yale University Press, 2009). Key publications encompass Immigration and Farm Labor: Policy Options and Consequences (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013), The Prosperity Paradox: Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers (2021), and Covid and US Farm Labor (2023). A frequent expert commentator in The New York Times, The Economist, and other media, Martin provides practical policy solutions to complex migration and labor issues, and consults for UN agencies worldwide.