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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 i...
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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

Jul 17 2023
This post was originally published on the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) blog and is reposted here with permission. By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson authors of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power Low-wage labor in the United S...
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The Dark Truth Behind Migration through a Father’s Quest for Justice

May 25 2023
Just as the end of Title 42 did not bring the predicted surge of migrants, the Biden Administration’s new immigration plan will not halt migrants from making the dangerous trip across Mexico to seek safe haven in the US. I wrote Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez ...
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