Visible Farmers/Invisible Workers

Wald, Sarah D.

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“…This food systems approach to labor is apparent in social justice and worker organizations' applied research, such as that of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and Race Forward (Food Chain Workers Alliance, 2012; Liu & Apollon, 2011). Some academic work also follows a food systems analysis of labor (Besky & Brown, 2015;Lo & Jacobson, 2011Minkoff-Zern, 2017;Sbicca, 2015;Wald, 2011). Minkoff-Zern and Mares's vision of scholar-activism resonated with Forum participants for its inclusion of food-based work that takes place both inside and outside the home (i.e., reproductive labor).…”

Section: Summary Of Current Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Klassen

Medland²,

Nicol³

et al. 2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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The crucial roles that workers, especially seasonal and migrant workers, play in our food systems have come under renewed attention in recent years. The coronavirus pandemic resulted in food workers being recognized as critical or essential workers in many countries. In 2021, this coincided with the UN International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV), highlighting the importance of horticultural crops to healthy lives globally. Yet, workers’ quality of life in this most labor-intensive form of food production is often disregarded, or in the case of the UN IYFV, misconstrued. The agriculture-migration nexus—on which food systems depend—remains recognized as a challenge, yet there is limited debate about how it could be ameliorated and a lack of articulation of desirable alternatives. While alternative food and peasant movements propose food system transformation and alternative labor futures based on agroecology, labor lawyers and other advocates propose regulation and formalization of workplace regimes to ensure fair working conditions. Most recently, a third possibility has emerged from agri-tech innovators: a techno-centric future with far fewer agricultural workers. These three archetypes of agricultural labor futures (agroecological, formally regulated, and techno-centric) have the potential to leave food scholars and activists without a unified, coherent vision to advance. Addressing this gap, this paper reports and builds on insights harvested from the international Good Work for Good Food Forum, organized by the authors with the aim of shaping consensus on positive visions for work in food systems. About 40 scholar-activists across three continents discussed the current challenges facing food workers and crafted a collective vision for good food work. This vision is documented in the form of nine principles supported by a framework of seven enabling pathways. We conclude by emphasizing the need for a people-centered incorporation of technology and a re-valuation of food workers’ contributions to global food systems. We offer the vision as a collective platform for action to advocate for and organize with workers in food systems.

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Section: Summary Of Current Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Klassen

Medland²,

Nicol³

et al. 2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…Farmworkers have long been invisible in the United States (Wald 2011). But research on FOD suggests that fear can affect Latinx civic and political participation (Maginot 2020), physical and mental health among both adults and youth (Cavazos‐Rehg, Zayas, and Spitznagel 2007; Gonzales, Suárez‐Orozco, and Dedios‐Sanguinet 2013; Martinez, Reulas, and Granger 2018), and maternal/infant health (Novak, Geronimus, and Martinez‐Cardoso 2017).…”

Section: Fod and Structural Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Isolation and Fear of Deportation: Intersectional Barriers to Well‐Being Among Latina Farmworkers in Southwestern Idaho

Meierotto¹,

Castellano²,

Curl³

2020

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Latina farmworkers in rural Idaho live with geographic isolation, fear of deportation, gender disparities, and income inequalities. While economic and social challenges have existed for decades, fear and isolation have become more acute during the Trump administration. Utilizing interview, survey, and focus group data, we identify multiple ways in which Latina farmworkers struggle with policy‐exacerbated isolation. We find that experiences of isolation intersect with gender disparities and economic inequalities, and this ultimately affects women’s well‐being.

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“…This perception is also palpable in studies that emphasise not the role of states but other ways in which the erasure of migrants occurs. Popular and literary narratives shape our imaginations about the lives of migrants, often creating and reinforcing stereotypes and thereafter creating blind spots in perceiving migrants’ presence beyond stereotypes (Samie 2013; Wald 2011). In a similar vein, scholars who highlight the perspectives of migrants on invisibility focus mainly on strategies by migrants to overcome this situation (Aguilar-San Juan 2009; Garbin 2013; Vogel 2014).…”

Section: Invisibility and State Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dressing the Myanmar Migrant Body: (In-)Visibility and Empowerment in Thailand

Gruß

2019

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The invisibility of migrants has been widely analysed in relation to states’ policies and practices. I argue in this article that emphasising the role of states and institutions in marginalising vulnerable populations by rendering them invisible throws a shadow over the multifaceted ways in which migrants interpret and relate to invisibility. Among Myanmar migrants in Thailand, as we shall see here, the notion that invisibility provides a protective shield to migrant bodies is in fact widespread. While invisibility is at times perceived as a threat to the future of these people, conceiving of invisibility solely as a tool of domination precludes us from fully understanding the complexity of Myanmar migrants’ experiences in Thailand and, more specifically, the many forms of empowerment that shape these experiences. Privileging the discourses and practices of Myanmar migrants in Thailand about their sartorial choices reveals that migrants appreciate invisibility for its capacity to create control over their own bodies. Further, it reveals the complexities of negotiating and expressing diasporic sartorial conventions.

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Visible Farmers/Invisible Workers

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Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Pathways for advancing good work in food systems: Reflecting on the international Good Work for Good Food Forum

Isolation and Fear of Deportation: Intersectional Barriers to Well‐Being Among Latina Farmworkers in Southwestern Idaho

Dressing the Myanmar Migrant Body: (In-)Visibility and Empowerment in Thailand

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