Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies Quotes

• Holmes: '"A handful of times, I was threatened with being kidnapped and put in jail explicitly because "gabachos" (white Americans) should not be here"'
• Holmes: '"During my first year of fieldwork, over five hundred people died"'
• Triqui migrants: '"There is no other option left for us"'
• Holmes: '"I feel like a rabbit, vulnerable and hunted"'
• Holmes: '"They dedicate everything to the fields in the United States, their labour and skills, their energy and time, and their identities and reputations, as well as their minds and bodies"'
• Holmes: '"Never called me deprecatory names like they did with the Oaxacan workers"'
• Holmes: '"My being treated as an equal, a friend, even a superior, while the Oaxacans were treated most often as inferiors, sometimes as animals, or even machines"'
• "Participant observation"
• Holmes: '"Squatter shacks made of carboard, plastic sheets and broken-down cars or in company owned labour camps"'
• Holmes: '"The migrant camps look like rusted tin-roofed tool sheds lined up within a few feet of each other or small chicken coops in long rows"'
• Holmes: '"Hidden away from public view"'
• Holmes: '"People on the farm often described the hierarchy in vertical metaphors, speaking of those "above" or "below" them, of "overseeing" or of being "at the bottom"
• Holmes: '"Those at the top most visible from outside the farm and those at the bottom most hidden"'
• Mateo: '"Many give birth prematurely due to the difficulty of their labour"'
• Holmes: '"The checkers are also allowed to treat the pickers as people who do not deserve equal respect"'
• Holmes: '"White pickers do not have a minimum weight to pick each day in order to keep their job, are allowed to work at their own pace and take breaks, and work a few summers at most"'
• White picker: '"It's not that bad really"'
• Holmes: '"Many do not eat or drink anything before work so they do not have to take time to use the bathroom"'
• Holmes: '"It honestly felt like pure torture"'
• Samuel: '"They scream at us and call us "dumb donkeys" or "dogs." It's very ugly how they treat us."'
• Holmes: '"The farm executives treated me as someone out o place, giving me special permission to keep my job and my shack even though I was never able to pick the minimum."'
• Holmes: '"My companions and I were consistently paid less than minimum wage"'
• Holmes: '"I often felt sick to my stomach the night before picking, due to stress about picking the minimum weight"'
• Abelino: '"In Oaxaca there's no work for us"'
• Abelino: '"Do we have to migrate to survive? Yes, we do?"'
• Abelino twisted his knee, he was given a brace to wear by his doctor, the brace made the pain worse, when he asked for lighter work the receptionist told him no