For over 30 years, Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project, Inc. (MMLAP) was the primary legal service provider for farm workers in the state of Michigan. MMLAP continues to be a non-profit organization funded to provide legal assistance to migrant and seasonal farm workers. But as of 1997, MMLAP's services were re-organized to continue to meet the needs of Michigan's farm worker community. MMLAP now handles those cases that other migrant legal services can not handle.

MMLAP is a law firm that provides litigation, education and other advocacy services that will serve to improve farm workers' lives. We serve migrant, seasonal, and settled-out farm workers and their dependents, who, because of their extremely low income, language barriers, isolation and transience, lack access to the institutions which could otherwise ensure their legal rights.

The Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1973 for the purpose of improving the lives of migrants in the state of Michigan. The organization's goals are:

    1.    to provide relief for poor, distressed and underprivileged migrant

           farm  workers and their families;

    2.    to enhance the protection of migrants from adverse work and economic

           conditions;

    3.    to obtain for those migrant farm workers a secure and harmonious

           community;

    4.    to undertake research into the legal aspects of migrant farm worker

           problems

    5.    to maximize the rights available to migrants;

    6.    to assist migrants in obtaining needed reformation of the law through the

           judicial and other lawful processes;

    7.    to strengthen migrant's bargaining power and increase their freedom of

           choice;

    8.    to promote the social welfare of migrants;

    9.    to educate migrant farm workers about their rights and responsibilities

           while living in Michigan.

    10.  to collaborate with outreach and social workers, attorneys and other

           whose duties or responsibilities affect migrants.