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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
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Skagit Valley: Tanaka Farm
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Central Valley of California
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Triqui Zone of Oaxaca, Mexico
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U.S. / MEXICO BORDER
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Presentation Structure Ethnicity-citizenship hierarchy in U.S. agriculture Hierarchy of suffering Naturalization of hierarchies
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THE TANAKA FARM
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THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
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THE HIERARCHY OF SUFFERING or HEALTH DISPARITIES Immigrants in the U.S. Agricultural workers Migrant and seasonal farm workers
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THE HIERARCHY OF SUFFERING or “The Doctors Don’t Know Anything”
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Skagit County Farmland
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COLLECTIVE BAD FAITH
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THE CLINICAL GAZE IN MIGRANT HEALTH
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NATURALIZATION and INTERNALIZATION
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PRAGMATIC SOLIDARITY Micro to Macro Continuum –Local clinical encounter –Medical education –Local and regional prejudices –National policies –Global policies
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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
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