Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
Contents:
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 the field of migrant health -- "Because they're lower to the ground": naturalizating social suffering -- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond.
Summary:
This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. The author uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. He trekked with his informants illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them. After their deportation he interviewed U.S. 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, and mourned at funerals for friends. The result conveys the full measure of struggle, suffering, and resilience of migrant farmworkers.
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