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Autore: López Ann Aurelia <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The farmworkers' journey [[electronic resource] /] / Ann Aurelia López Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
Disciplina: 331.5/4408968720794
Soggetto topico: Migrant agricultural laborers - California
Migrant agricultural laborers - Mexico
Soggetto non controllato: 21st century american immigration
21st century american politics
agricultural economy
american history
american immigration
border crossing
california
corporate agribusiness
democracy
economic globalization
economics
family
farm work
farmers and farming
farms and farmers
historical farming practices
human condition
immigration and emigration
mexican american border
mexico
migrant workers
migration
nafta
political debate
politics
poverty
rural
transnational corporations
united states of america
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Farmworkers' Journey -- 2. Mexico's Historical Farming Practices -- 3. Aspects of Mexico's Agricultural Political Economy -- 4. Migration Northward to Central California -- 5. Immigration Experiences -- 6. California's Corporate Agribusiness -- 7. Farmworkers in Central California's Corporate Agribusiness -- 8. An Impoverished, Endangered, and Overworked People in the Land of Plenty -- 9. Farmworker Household Survival in Central California -- 10. Meanwhile, Back on the Farm -- 11. Transnational Corporations and the U.S. Legacy in West-Central Mexico -- 12. Endangered Mexican Farmers -- 13. Institutional Oppression in the West-Central Mexico Countryside -- 14. Toward an Enlightened Perception of California's Mexican Agricultural Immigrants -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Agrochemical Inventories and Classifications -- Appendix B: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans-a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it has become nearly impossible for rural communities in Mexico to continue to farm the land sustainably, leaving few survival options except the perilous border crossing to the United States. The Farmworkers' Journey brings together for the first time the many facets of this issue into a comprehensive and accessible narrative: how corporate agribusiness operates, how binational institutions and laws promote the subjugation of Mexican farmworkers, how migration affects family life, how genetically modified corn strains pouring into Mexico from the United States are affecting farmers, how migrants face exploitation from employers, and more. A must-read for all Americans, The Farmworkers' Journey traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.
Titolo autorizzato: The farmworkers' journey  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94057-1
1-282-36020-5
9786612360206
1-4337-0840-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784420103321
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