Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

Name: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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ISBN: 9780520275140

ISBN-10: 0520275144

ISBN-13: 9780520275140

Edition: 2013

Authors: Seth M. Holmes, Philippe Bourgois

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This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on 5 years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes' material is visceral and powerful--for instance, he trekked with his informants illegally through the desert border into Arizona, where they were apprehended and jailed by the Border Patrol. After he was released from jail (and his companions were deported back to Mexico),…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments



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 Migrant Health



"Because They're Lower to the Ground": Naturalizing Social Suffering



Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond


Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge


Notes


References


Index