STRAWBERRIES AND SUFFERING Social Inequalities, Symbolic Violence, and Health in US-Mexico Migration Seth M. Holmes, M.D., Ph.D. Internal Medicine and Cultural Anthropology Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Columbia University
Skagit Valley: Tanaka Farm
Central Valley of California
Triqui Zone of Oaxaca, Mexico
U.S. / MEXICO BORDER
Presentation Structure Ethnicity-citizenship hierarchy in U.S. agriculture Hierarchy of suffering Naturalization of hierarchies
THE TANAKA FARM
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
THE HIERARCHY OF SUFFERING or HEALTH DISPARITIES Immigrants in the U.S. Agricultural workers Migrant and seasonal farm workers
THE HIERARCHY OF SUFFERING or “The Doctors Don’t Know Anything”
Skagit County Farmland
COLLECTIVE BAD FAITH
THE CLINICAL GAZE IN MIGRANT HEALTH
NATURALIZATION and INTERNALIZATION
PRAGMATIC SOLIDARITY Micro to Macro Continuum –Local clinical encounter –Medical education –Local and regional prejudices –National policies –Global policies
Acknowledgements Triqui people Tanaka Farm Clinicians Area residents Family and friends Professors and classmates UCSF, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Columbia U, Harvard U NIH, NIGMS, MSTP, UCMexus, UCSF Dean’s Office