"Oaxacans like to work bent over": The naturalization of social suffering among berry farm workers

International Migration

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 39-68

  Holmes, Seth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; NATURALIZATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA;

EID: 34547119551     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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