Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities by Alisa Garni overstock themselves living with long-term illness

themselves living with long-term illness

and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros

the two young women quickly find themselves growing closer

and those who demand to be seen

Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots

Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities by Alisa Garni overstock themselves living with long-term illnessBased on years of ethnographic research in rural Kansas, Crafting Dignity is an eye opening look at why Latin American immigrants came to work on dairy farms in the Heartland and how their presence is transforming both the industry and their local communities. Immigrants in the United States are overrepresented among essential workers in agro food production. In the dairy industry alone, immigrants constitute 51 percent of the labor force and produce