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Q&A with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Sep 26 2023
Now updated with a new prologue and epilogue, Seth Holmes' bestselling book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contempo
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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

Jul 17 2023
By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson Low-wage labor in the United States is characterized by egregiously low minimum wage standards, insufficient health and safety protections, and a civil rights regime that does little to address structural racism. 
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The Dark Truth Behind Migration through a Father’s Quest for Justice

May 25 2023
The story of Jorge Velasquez’s quest for justice for the murder of his daughter and the stories of other women seeking help or safe haven from crime and terror simultaneously transcend the individual and teach us all something about humanity and ourselves.
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