The Well-Being of Latinx Farmworkers in a Time of Change

Lisa Meierotto earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington, with a specialization in Environmental Anthropology. She also has an MA in International Development, Environment and Community Development from Clark University. Dr. Meierotto teaches in the Global Studies and Environmental Studies programs at in the School of Public Service at Boise State University. Her research interests center on environmental justice, human rights, global migration, sustainable agriculture, and inclusive conservation. She is currently the Interim Director of the Marilyn Shuler Human Rights Initiative and an Associate Professor in the School of Public Service at Boise State University.
Teresa Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and is the Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems. She is the author of Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont (2019). She received her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington. She also completed a graduate certificate in Women Studies at the University of Washington.
Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is on faculty in the Division of Society and Environment, the Joint PhD Program in Medical Anthropology and affiliated faculty in the Department of Anthropology as well as the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Founder and 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. He is also Researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and the ICREA Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Study. 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, The Guardian, and Salon.com and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs. 

This book explores the well-being of Latinx farmworkers living and laboring in the United States. The contributions take a deeper look at the lived experiences of farmworkers. The chapters explore the various ways in which well-being is framed in diverse academic disciplines, and how the concept of well-being has been employed in previous research on Latinx farmworkers.  This volume appeals to students, researchers and professionals.  
Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 37, issue 1, March 2020

Argues for more ethnographic as opposed to traditional social science approaches

Introduction to the sumposium: Bienestar-the well-being of Latinx farmworkers in a time of change L. Meierotto, T. Mares, and S. M. Holmes: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:187-196 (1, July 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09964-9

Using Chiles and comics to address the physical and emotional wellbeing of farmworkers in Vermont's borderlands T. Mares, N. Wolcott-MacCausland, J. Doucet, A. Kolovos, and M. Bennett: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:197-208 (20, June 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09960-z

Food provisioning strategies among Latinx farm workers in southwestern Idaho L. Meierotto and R. S. Castellano: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:209-223 (24, June 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09959-6

Health by mail: mail order medication practices of Latinx dairy worker households on the northern US border N. Wolcott-MacCausland, T. Mares, and D. Baker: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:225-236 (24, June 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09962-x

Migrant farmworkers injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness S. M. Holmes: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:237-247 (27, June 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09965-8

Correction to: Migrant farmworker injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness S. M. Holmes: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:249 (29, July 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09974-7

Mark Schapiro: Seeds of resistance-the fight to save our food supply T. Burggraf: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:251-252 (10, September 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09981-8

Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Aijuan Chen (eds): Organic food and farming in China: top-down and bottom-up ecological initiatives L. Martindale: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:253-254 (10, September 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09986-3

Peter Dauvergne: Will big business destroy the planet? R. Ghosh: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:255-256 (4, September 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09985-4

Erin McKenna: Livestock: food, fiber, and friends S. B. Richardson: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:257-258 (5, September 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09982-7

Maria J. Veri and Rita Liberti: Gridiron gourmet: gender and food at the football tailgate C. J. P. Colfer: Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 2020: 37:259-260 (11, October 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09991-6

Books Received C. J. P. Colfer: Agriculture and Human Values 2020, 2020: 37:261-263 (2020) DOI: 10.1007/s10460-020-10020-0