Fresh fruit, broken bodies [[electronic resource] ] : migrant farmworkers in the United States / / Seth M. Holmes

• Autore: Holmes Seth M. <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , [2013]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 331.5/440973
• Soggetto topico: Migrant agricultural laborers - United States - Social conditions; Migrant agricultural laborers; Agricultural laborers; Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers
• Soggetto non controllato: anthropologist; anthropology; arizona desert; biography; borderlands; crossing the border; cultural analysis; deportation; deported immigrants; embodied anthropology; farm labor camps; health and wellness; health care; human rights; immigration stories; immigration; memoir; mexican immigrants; oaxaca; social inequalities; us mexico relations
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- FOREWORD -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. Introduction. "Worth Risking Your Life?" -- TWO. "We Are Field Workers". Embodied Anthropology of Migration -- THREE. Segregation on the Farm. Ethnic Hierarchies at Work -- FOUR. "How the Poor Suffer". Embodying the Violence Continuum -- FIVE. "Doctors Don't Know Anything". The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health -- SIX. "Because They're Lower to the Ground". Naturalizing Social Suffering -- SEVEN. Conclusion. Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond -- APPENDIX. On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes's material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the U.S., planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This "embodied anthropology" deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which social inequalities and suffering come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care. All of the book award money and royalties from the sales of this book have been donated to farm worker unions, farm worker organizations and farm worker projects in consultation with farm workers who appear in the book.
• Altri titoli varianti: Migrant farmworkers in the United States
• Titolo autorizzato: Fresh fruit, broken bodies
• ISBN: 0-520-95479-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786707103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California series in public anthropology ; ; 27.