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Holmes, Seth M., (1975-)

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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fresh fruit, broken bodies :/ Seth M. Holmes ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois.
Reminder of title:	migrant farmworkers in the United States /
Author:	Holmes, Seth M.,
Published:	Berkeley :University of California Press, : c2013.,
Description:	xxiv, 234 p. :ill., map. ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Introduction: "We are field workers" -- Segregation on thefarm: ethnicity and citizenship hierarchies at work -- "How the poor suffer": suffering the hierarchy/the hierarchy of suffering -- "The doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health -- "Worth risking your life?": field notes from a desert border crossing -- "Because they're lower to the ground": the naturalization of social suffering -- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond.
Subject:	Migrant agricultural laborers - Social conditions. - United States -
ISBN:	9780520954793 (ebook)

Fresh fruit, broken bodies : = migrant farmworkers in the United States /
Holmes, Seth M.,1975-

Fresh fruit, broken bodies :migrant farmworkers in the United States /Seth M. Holmes ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois. - Berkeley :University of California Press,c2013. - xxiv, 234 p. :ill., map. ;24 cm. - California series in public anthropology ;27.. - California series in public anthropology ;27..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "We are field workers" -- Segregation on thefarm: ethnicity and citizenship hierarchies at work -- "How the poor suffer": suffering the hierarchy/the hierarchy of suffering -- "The doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health -- "Worth risking your life?": field notes from a desert border crossing -- "Because they're lower to the ground": the naturalization of social suffering -- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond.

"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), Holmes interviewed Border Patrolagents, local residents, and armed vigilantes in the borderlands. He lived with indigenous Mexican families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the United States, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals, participated in healing rituals, and mourned atfunerals for friends. The result is a "thick description" that conveys the full measure of struggle, suffering, and resilience of these farmworkers. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies weds the theoretical analysis of the anthropologistwith the intimacy of the journalist to provide a compelling examination of structural and symbolic violence,medicalization, and the clinical gaze as they affect the experiences and perceptions of a vertical slice of indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers, farm owners, doctors, and nurses. This reflexive, embodied anthropologydeepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in whichsocially structured suffering comes to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care, especially through imputations of ethnic body difference. In the vehement debates on immigration reform and health reform, this book provides the necessary stories of real people and insights into our food system and health care system for us to move forward to fair policies and solutions"--Publisher information.

ISBN: 9780520954793 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

2107291
Migrant agricultural laborers
--Social conditions.--United States

LC Class. No.: HD1525 / .H685 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 331.5

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