Seth Holmes
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“The pressures of the current neoliberal capitalist system of health care and its financing force health professionals into a double bind. Either they spend the time and energy necessary to listen to and fully treat the patient and put their job and clinic in economic jeopardy, or they move at a frenetic pace to keep their practice afloat and only partially attend to the patient in their presence.”
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
“the reality of survival for my Triqui companions shows that it would be riskier to stay in San Miguel without work, money, food, or education. In this original context, crossing the border is not a choice to engage in a risk behavior but rather a process necessary to survive, to make life less risky.”
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
“... it is estimated that approximately 95 percent of agricultural workers in the United States were born in Mexico, 52 percent of them unauthorized”
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
― Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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