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Masculinity and undocumented labor migration: injured latino day laborers in San Francisco

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  • Walter, Nicholas
  • Bourgois, Philippe
  • Margarita Loinaz, H.

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Drawing on data collected through clinical practice and ethnographic fieldwork, this study examines the experience of injury, illness and disability among undocumented Latino day laborers in San Francisco. We demonstrate how constructions of masculine identity organize the experience of embodied social suffering among workers who are rendered vulnerable by the structural conditions of undocumented immigrant status. Theoretical concepts from critical medical anthropology and gender studies extend the scholarly analysis of structural violence beyond the primarily economic to uncover how it is embodied at the intimate level as a gendered experience of personal and familial crisis, involving love, respect, betrayal and patriarchal failure. A clinical ethnographic focus on socially structured patriarchal suffering elucidates the causal relationship between macro-forces and individual action with a fuller appreciation of the impact of culture and everyday lived experience.

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  • Walter, Nicholas & Bourgois, Philippe & Margarita Loinaz, H., 2004. "Masculinity and undocumented labor migration: injured latino day laborers in San Francisco," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 59(6), pages 1159-1168, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:59:y:2004:i:6:p:1159-1168
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    4. Curtis Breslin, F. & Polzer, Jessica & MacEachen, Ellen & Morrongiello, Barbara & Shannon, Harry, 2007. "Workplace injury or "part of the job"?: Towards a gendered understanding of injuries and complaints among young workers," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 64(4), pages 782-793, February.
    5. Kathleen Sexsmith, 2022. "The embodied precarity of year-round agricultural work: health and safety risks among Latino/a immigrant dairy farmworkers in New York," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 39(1), pages 357-370, March.

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