Featuring talk by Professor Seth Holmes (UC Berkeley).
Date: May 8th, 2023
Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is Chancellor's Professor at UC Berkeley in Society and Environment and affiliated with Medical Anthropology and Public Health. He is Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Huffington Post and Salon.com and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs.
The talk explores social hierarchies, health, health care and the naturalization and normalization of difference and inequality in the context of im/migration and transnational agro-food systems. This talk is based on in-depth ethnographic field research in the United States and Mexico with Indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers and the health professionals who attend to them, farm managers and farm owners. The field work involved living in an Indigenous pueblo in southern Mexico, crossing the border by foot into Arizona, going to border patrol jail, working in strawberry and blueberry fields, living in farm labor camps, and observing and volunteering in health clinics and hospitals. The talk analyzes the ways in which migrants and the societies in which they live are closely connected - including on embodied levels - and the ways in which these connections become invisibilized. This talk provides new analyses and theorizations since the publication of the book, "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States", which received national and international awards in anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award.
CMR UW Migration Seminars: New Advances in Theory and Research on Migration
A series of lecture with leading scholars, providing a platform for discussing current achievements in migration research in the world.
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