Vulnerabilities and Collective Care: Indigenous Guatemalan and Mexican Farmworkers in Diaspora Confronting COVID-19 in the Western United States
Mexican Studies - Estudios Mexicanos
; 39(1):117-144, 2023.
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in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2282538
ABSTRACT
This article contributes to scholarly and policy conversations about diasporic Indigenous peoples from Mexico and Guatemala and forms of discrimination, through lack of attention to language and culture, that result in differential health and economic outcomes for Indigenous workers. In tandem, it emphasizes the ways that Indigenous farmworkers attempt to compensate for this discrimination by establishing forms of community care emotional support, mutual aid of many kinds, and the integration of care work into daily life. I conceptualize Indigenous farmworkers as integral parts of families and communities built on relational connections and circuits of care linked across many borders. This article is based primarily on quantitative and qualitative findings from the Oregon COVID-19 Farmworkers Study (COFS), which included surveys with three hundred farmworkers, qualitative interviews with forty-eight of them, and identified twenty-nine Mesoamerican languages in Oregon. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California.
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Central America
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Guatemala
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Mexico
Language:
English
Journal:
Mexican Studies - Estudios Mexicanos
Year:
2023
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Article
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