Event Title
They Like to Work Bent Over: Latino Migrant Health and the Normalization of Inequality
Description
Based on ethnographic fieldwork with undocumented, indigenous Triqui migrant laborers from the Mexican State of Oaxaca, Seth Holmes will present research from his forthcoming book: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in the United States. In following their migration circuit from the mountains of Oaxaca through the desert borderlands of Arizona to the farmlands of Washington State, his research explores indigeneity, ethnicity, citizenship, labor, and suffering hierarchies as well as the processes by which these are rendered invisible, normal, and natural. He will address the structures of this injurious hierarchy and how they are channeled through international borders, domestic racism, classism, sexism and anti-“illegal” immigrant prejudices.
About the Lecturer: Seth Holmes is the Martin Sisters Endowed Chair and Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
20-2-2013 12:00 PM
End Date
20-2-2013 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Health; Agricultural laborers, Foreign--United States
Geographic Coverage
Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico)
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Latino migrant health, Indigenous Mexican farmworkers, Migration circuit
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
They Like to Work Bent Over: Latino Migrant Health and the Normalization of Inequality
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Based on ethnographic fieldwork with undocumented, indigenous Triqui migrant laborers from the Mexican State of Oaxaca, Seth Holmes will present research from his forthcoming book: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in the United States. In following their migration circuit from the mountains of Oaxaca through the desert borderlands of Arizona to the farmlands of Washington State, his research explores indigeneity, ethnicity, citizenship, labor, and suffering hierarchies as well as the processes by which these are rendered invisible, normal, and natural. He will address the structures of this injurious hierarchy and how they are channeled through international borders, domestic racism, classism, sexism and anti-“illegal” immigrant prejudices.
About the Lecturer: Seth Holmes is the Martin Sisters Endowed Chair and Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley.
