Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists

(5-0350) Bienestar: Transition and Wellbeing amongst Mexican-origin Farmworkers

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizer(s)

• Lisa Meierotto

  Assistant Professor
  Boise State University

Chair(s)

• Teresa Mares

  Associate Professor
  University of Vermont

Presenter(s)

• Rebecca Som Castellano

  Boise State University

• Emilia Guevara

  University of Maryland, College Park

• Jennifer Cook

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Southern Methodist University

• Susie Donaldson

  West Virginia University

• Teresa Mares

  Associate Professor
  University of Vermont

• Lisa Meierotto

  Assistant Professor
  Boise State University

Discussant(s)

• Seth Holmes

  Associate Professor
  University of California, Berkeley

Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

  Everyday injuries: Female Mexican migrant crab workers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  Working toward a better life: Legal permanent migration, family il/legalization, and intergenerational wellbeing of migrant farmworkers in Connecticut
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  Farmers, Farmworkers, and the “Difficult, Dirty, and Sometimes Dangerous” Work of Burley Tobacco
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  Vulnerability and Violence in the Northern Borderlands
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  Food Provisioning Strategies among Agricultural Workers in Rural Idaho
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  Discussion