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.d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a in ro fila C fo ytisre vin U .3 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:55:23. PRAISE FOR FRESH FRUIT, BROKEN BODIES “In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, Seth Holmes offers up an important and captivating new ethnography, linking the structural violence inherent in the migrant labor system in the United States to the social processes by which it becomes normalized. Drawing on five years of fieldwork among the Triqui people from Oaxaca, Mexico, Holmes investigates local understandings of suffering and illness, casting into relief stereotypes and prejudices that he ties to the transnational labor that puts cheap food on American tables. Throughout this compelling volume, Holmes considers ways of engaging migrant farmworkers and allies who might help disrupt the exploitation that reaches across national boundaries and can too often be hidden away. This book is a gripping read not only for cultural and medical anthropologists, students in immigration and ethnic studies as well as labor and agriculture, and physicians and public health professionals, but also for anyone interested in the lives and well-being of the people who provide them cheap, fresh fruit.” Paul Farmer, Cofounder of Partners in Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School “This book takes concepts from the world of scholarship to enrich the understanding of people’s lives, while its vivid detail and empathetic portrait of the reality of people’s lives enrich scholarship. Holmes leaves the reader in no doubt that economic arrangements, social hierarchies, discrimination, and poor living and working conditions have profound effects on the health of marginalized people, and he does so with the touch .de of a gifted writer. The reader lives the detail and is much moved.” vre se r sth gir llA Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity .sse rP a “A tour de force ethnography. Holmes gives us the rare combination of in ro fila medical, anthropological, and humanitarian gazes into the lives of Oaxacan C fo ytisre migrant farmworkers in the United States. Their agricultural field work vin and his anthropological fieldwork intersect to produce a book full of U .31 insights into the pathos, inequalities, frustrations, and dreams punctuating 0 2 © th the farmworkers’ daily lives. Through Holmes’s vivid prose, and the words g irypo of the workers themselves, we feel with the workers as they strain their C bodies picking fruit and pruning vines; we sense their fear as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border; we understand their frustrations as they are Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:55:23. chased and detained by immigration authorities; and we cheer at their perseverance when faced with bureaucrats and medical personnel who treat them as if they were to blame for their own impoverished condition. A must-read for anyone interested in the often invisible lives and suffering of those whose labor provides for our very sustenance.” Leo R. Chavez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine “In his first book, anthropologist and doctor Seth M. Holmes gives us an intimate look into the lives of migrant farmworkers. Through his exhaustive research, Holmes reveals the struggles of the millions who work in our fields, every year, to put food on our tables. In deliberations about immigration and farm policy, these are the stories that should be at the center. Holmes helps us put them there.” Anna Lappé, author Diet for a Hot Planet and founder of the Real Food Media Project “In this book, Seth Holmes recounts the experience of Mexican workers who cross the border illegally at their own risk, hoping to be employed on the farms of the West Coast of the United States and, above all, to allow their children a better existence. His engaged anthropology provides a unique understanding of the political economy of migrant labor and of its human cost.” Didier Fassin, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and author of Humanitarian Reason “Like the reporting of Edward R. Murrow and the labors of Cesar Chavez, .d Seth Holmes’s work on these modern-day migrants reminds us of the e vre se human beings who produce the greatest bounty of food the world has ever r sth gir llA seen. They take jobs that other American workers won’t take, for pay that .sse other American workers won’t accept and under conditions that other rP a American workers won’t tolerate. Yet except for the minority of in ro fila farmworkers protected by United Farm Workers’ contracts, these workers C fo ytisre too often don’t earn enough to adequately feed themselves. Seth Holmes’s vin writing fuels the UFW’s ongoing organizing among farmworkers and U .3 10 admonishes the American people that our work remains unfinished.” 2 © th g irypo Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:55:23. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a in ro fila C fo ytisre vin U .3 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:55:23. CALIFORNIA SERIES IN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY The California Series in Public Anthropology emphasizes the anthropologist’s role as an engaged intellectual. It continues anthropology’s commitment to being an ethnographic witness, to describing, in human terms, how life is lived beyond the borders of many readers’ experiences. But it also adds a commitment, through ethnography, to reframing the terms of public debate—transforming received, accepted understandings of social issues with new insights, new framings. Series Editor: Robert Borofsky (Hawaii Pacific University) Contributing Editors: Philippe Bourgois (University of Pennsylvania), Paul Farmer (Partners in Health), Alex Hinton (Rutgers University), Carolyn Nordstrom (University of Notre Dame), and Nancy Scheper-Hughes (UC Berkeley) University of California Press Editor: Naomi Schneider .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a in ro fila C fo ytisre vin U .3 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:55:23. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies MIGRANT FARMWORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES SETH M. HOLMES, PHD, MD With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a in ro fila C fo ytisre vin UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS U .3 1 02 Berkeley Los Angeles London © th g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:55:30. To Ed and Carolyn Holmes, for introducing me to a life open to new questions To the Triqui people in the United States and Mexico, for allowing me into your lives and guiding me toward new answers .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a in ro fila C fo ytisre vin U .3 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:57:26. . . . our work is not done. Dolores Huerta .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a in ro fila C fo ytisre vin U .3 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:57:26. Contents List of Illustrations Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois Acknowledgments 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”: Embodying 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 .d Suffering e vre se r sth 7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond g ir llA .sse rP a in ro Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge fila C fo ytisre Notes vin U .3 References 1 0 2 © th giryp Index o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:57:34. Illustrations Map of migration fieldwork The author, Macario, and their Triqui companions in the border desert The author and Triqui men in the border desert Triqui men sleeping under garbage bags in the border desert Farm labor camp Chart of labor hierarchy on the farm A white teenage checker with Mexican pickers Marcelina picking strawberries Samuel pruning with children in California vineyard Conceptual diagram of hierarchies on the farm Abelino working in the field Self-medication: cans behind a cabina .d The village of San Miguel, Oaxaca e vre se r sth The center of San Miguel, where the Centro de Salud is located g ir llA .sse Samuel’s sister carrying firewood, returning to San Miguel with Samuel’s rP father a in ro fila Danger: pesticide storage area C fo ytisre A checker stands while pickers kneel in the strawberry field vin U .3 Strawberry picker strike 1 0 2 © th Strawberry pickers on strike reading the list of grievances g iryp o C Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies : Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/puccl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1184054. Created from puccl-ebooks on 2020-10-10 19:57:43.