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Table of Contents
Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Updated Edition

1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?”
2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration
3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work
4. “How the Poor Suffer”:nEmbodying the Violence Continuum
5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health
6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering
7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond
Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table:
Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change,
coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez

Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and
Contextual Knowledge
Notes
References
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 28/11/2023
      ISBN13: 9780520399457, 978-0520399457
      ISBN10: 0520399455
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      Labour / income economics Migration, immigration and emigration

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois
      Acknowledgments
      Preface to the Updated Edition

      1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?”
      2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration
      3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work
      4. “How the Poor Suffer”:nEmbodying the Violence Continuum
      5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health
      6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering
      7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond
      Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table:
      Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change,
      coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez

      Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and
      Contextual Knowledge
      Notes
      References
      Index

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