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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback, First Edition, With A Foreword Ed.)
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback, First Edition, With A Foreword Ed.)
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology, 27
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This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and
suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on five 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. HolmesOCO material is visceral and
powerfulOCofor 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 Patrol agents, 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 at funerals 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
anthropologist with 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 anthropology deepens our theoretical
understanding of the ways in which socially 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.
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