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- Frontmatter i
- Contents xi
- List of Illustrations xiii
- Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois xv
- Acknowledgments xxiii
- Preface to the Updated Edition xxix
- 1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?” 1
- 2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration 30
- 3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work 45
- 4. “How the Poor Suffer”: Embodying the Violence Continuum 88
- 5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health 111
- 6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering 155
- 7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond 182
- Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table: Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change, coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez 199
- Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge 237
- Notes 241
- References 257
- Index 271
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents xi
- List of Illustrations xiii
- Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois xv
- Acknowledgments xxiii
- Preface to the Updated Edition xxix
- 1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?” 1
- 2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration 30
- 3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work 45
- 4. “How the Poor Suffer”: Embodying the Violence Continuum 88
- 5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health 111
- 6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering 155
- 7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond 182
- Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table: Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change, coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez 199
- Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge 237
- Notes 241
- References 257
- Index 271