Summary:

In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Molly Enloe and Gauri Sood dig into the hidden realities of the H-2A visa program with guest Izza Drury. They explore how this legal framework—marketed as a pathway for temporary agricultural work—is, in practice, a system that traps migrant farmworkers in cycles of abuse, wage theft, and corporate exploitation, with little to no legal recourse.

Editors:

Special thanks to Shyun Moon for audio editing assistance, Giovana de Oliveira and Nelson Reed for production assistance, and to Mirei Saneyoshi for technical assistance and show notes.

Guest Bio:

Izza Drury is graduate of Harvard Law School, Class of 2024. Izza graduated from Brown University in 2017 and prior to law school worked to advance migrants’ rights in France, Greece, and the United States. Izza is from Vinalhaven, Maine.

Izza is currently a Public Service Venture Fellow working as a trainee at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. While at HLS, Izza served as a Project Leader for Advocates for Human Rights, was an Assistant Managing Editor at the Harvard Human Rights Journal and participated in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic.

Music:

Our theme music is "I Been Waiting" by Crystal Squad, and you'll also hear segments of "Palms Down" by Blue Dot Sessions.

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