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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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