The illegal and the dead: Are Mexicans renewable energy?

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 454-474

  Smith Nonini, Sandy ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Body politic; Immigration; Neoliberalism; Occupational risk; Productivity; Systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MANPOWER; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MEXICO; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MEXICO; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 80052689998     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.577045     Document Type: Article

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