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Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States

By: Holmes, Seth M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: California, USA : University of California Press , 2013Description: xxiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780520275133 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780520275140 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- Social conditions. -- Anthropology -- sociology -- medicine -- public healthDDC classification: 331.544
Contents:
Introduction: "Worth risking your life?" -- "We are field workers": embodied anthropology of migration -- Segregation on the farm: ethnic hierarchies at work -- "How the poor suffer": embodying the violence continuum -- "Doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health -- "Because they're lower to the ground": naturalizating social suffering -- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond.
List(s) this item appears in: New 2017-18 (Fall & Winter)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.

Introduction: "Worth risking your life?" -- "We are field workers": embodied anthropology of migration -- Segregation on the farm: ethnic hierarchies at work -- "How the poor suffer": embodying the violence continuum -- "Doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health -- "Because they're lower to the ground": naturalizating social suffering -- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond.

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