Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States Audiobook (Free)

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and struggling of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes displays how market causes, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health insurance and health care. Holmes’s material is visceral and effective. He trekked along with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before these were deported. He lived with indigenous family members in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the U.S., planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to treatment centers and clinics. This ’embodied anthropology’ deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways that sociable inequalities and suffering become perceived as regular and natural in culture and in healthcare.