Milking in the Shadows

Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland

Julie C. Keller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9642-6 (ISBN)

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Takes an in-depth look at a population of undocumented migrants working in the American dairy industry to understand the components of this labour system. This book offers a framework for understanding the disjuncture between the labour desired by employers and life as an undocumented worker in America today.

Migrant workers live in a transnational world that spans the boundaries of nation-states. Yet for undocumented workers, this world is complicated by inflexible immigration policies and the ever-present threat of enforcement. Workers labeled as “illegals” wrestle with restrictive immigration policies, evading border patrol and local police as they risk their lives to achieve economic stability for their families. For this group of workers, whose lives in the U.S. are largely defined by their tenuous legal status, the sacrifices they make to get ahead entail long periods of waiting, extended separation from family, and above all, tremendous uncertainty around a freedom that many of us take for granted—everyday mobility. In Milking in the Shadows, Julie Keller takes an in-depth look at a population of undocumented migrants working in the American dairy industry to understand the components of this labor system. This book offers a framework for understanding the disjuncture between the labor desired by employers and life as an undocumented worker in America today.

JULIE C. KELLER is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1          Introduction

2          Dairying Differently: The Labor Shift in the Wisconsin Dairy Industry

3          Organizing Mobility: The Transnational Making of Workers in Veracruz, Mexico

4          Changing Villages: From Coffee and Corn to Migration and Milk

5          Crossing in Place: Mobility Regulated at the Border

6          Precarious Work, Limited Mobility: Managing in the Shadows on Los Ranchos

7          Belonging in the Countryside: The Rural Idyll and the Legal Landscape

8          Going Home: Delayed Departures, Families in Wait, and the Difficulties of Returning

9          Conclusion: The Politics of Mobility

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
ISBN-10	0-8135-9642-4 / 0813596424
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9642-6 / 9780813596426
Zustand	Neuware