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
Presentation Structure
Ethnicity-citizenship hierarchy
in U.S. agriculture Hierarchy of suffering Naturalization of hierarchies
THE HIERARCHY OF SUFFERINGor HEALTH DISPARITIES
Immigrants in the U.S. Agricultural workers Migrant and seasonal farm workers
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