They Like to Work Bent Over: Latino Migrant Health and the Normalization of Inequality

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