Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies Summary

“Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies” was published in 2013, by Steph Holmes, in response to how migrate workers are treated. Holmes main issue is we should be able to have fresh fruits, and less broken bodies. Holmes is trying to education people on whats actually going on around them. Holmes With less job opportunities, farm work in America is not volunteer work for these people, it is more of a forced thing to support their families. Holmes was able to conduct interviews and his real life experience with these people, to conduct a bigger audience. His main audience were only to policy makers, health care workers, and any one who could help these people during their time of need. One of his main idea is that why would you treat these immigrants in

Poverty has been an on going issue for years, and today it is just getting worse, and just like Seth Holmes, we all wonder how the life of migrated worker works, and how are they really surviving. Living in poverty in American has it’s perks because we have the government backing us up to some extent. Americans have it so good that they don't have to work long and hard hours in the burning hot sun, for less than minimum wage. However, the Triqui migrant workers from Mexico do not have those privileges, so they flee from Mexico to work day and night in the fields of California and Washington and sometimes leaving their families behind to make close to nothing for a living. In Fresh Fruits, Broken Bodies, by Seth Holmes he goes into depth on how the people of Triqui are trying to survive. Most migrant workers are mostly made up of Mexicans, mainly working on farms if not, they are being paid under the table for another job. Seth, has used Mexican migrant workers to define what structural violence, symbolic violence, neoliberal global economy, and naturalization

The great part about Mexican migrant workers is that they take low paying, menial jobs, which no American would do without crying out. The problem in America now, is that Americans did not want the jobs Mexicans where doing, but now the unemployment rate in American has increased Americans now want these jobs. This is now causing social tension between Americans and Mexicans, and with Donald Trump being president nothing is getting better. Migrant worker are also hurting the economy, because they aren’t using the money to they in American in American, they are sending all that money back home so it messes with the