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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue

Paperback • 2023 • English • 1. edition

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue

By Seth M. Holmes, Jorge Ramirez-Lopez

5 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Seth Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes was invited to trek with his companions clandestinely through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with...Show more

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ISBN

9780520398634

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published year

2023

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue

Format

Paperback

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