Using chiles and comics to address the physical and emotional wellbeing of farmworkers in Vermont’s borderlands

Mares, Teresa M.; Wolcott-MacCausland, Naomi; Doucet, Julia; Kolovos, Andy; Bennett, Marek

doi:10.1007/s10460-019-09960-z

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“…Kitwana (2014) used ethnographic methods and active-participatory dance to explore holistic wellbeing (psychological, physical, and social) needs in African American/Black adults ( n = 7). Mares et al (2020) addressed self and collective perceptions of felt and real structural forms of violence and vulnerability in Latinx day-farmworkers in Vermont through a combined comic-book and gardening intervention. Harrison et al (2020) addressed perceptions, beliefs, opinions, and attitudes about physical activity and exercise in 58 urban-residing elderly minority individuals.…”

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“…Their quantitative research investigated the effects of participation in a high school orchestra on members’ self-esteem. In contrast, at the community level, the study by Mares et al (2020) assessed several arts interventions designed to address structural violence and structural vulnerability that effect the wellbeing of farmworker communities. Of note, participatory dance programs were found to benefit participants on a holistic level.…”

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“…This category included the subcategories of evaluation, communitybased participatory research (CBPR), experimental, correlational, and model testing. Elderly/Older adult 7 Gooding et al, 2014;Moore et al, 2017;Cantu and Fleuriet, 2018;Fleuriet and Chauvin, 2018;Harrison et al, 2020;Johnson et al, 2020;Strong and Midden, 2020 Immigrant 5 Stephenson et al, 2013;Novak, 2016;Fleming et al, 2017;Yam, 2017;Mares et al, 2020 Women and girls 6 Moe, 2014;O'Brien, 2015O'Brien, , 2016McConnell et al, 2016;Travis et al, 2016;Teti et…”

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Engaging the Arts for Wellbeing in the United States of America: A Scoping Review

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There is increasing interest today in how the arts contribute to individual and community wellbeing. This scoping review identified and examined ways in which the arts have been used to address wellbeing in communities in the United States. The review examined 44 publications, with combined study populations representing a total of 5,080 research participants, including marginalized populations. It identified the types of artistic practices and interventions being conducted, research methods, and outcomes measured. It highlights positive associations found across a broad spectrum of psychological, physical, and social outcomes, including improvements in self-esteem and identity formation, cognition, physical balance, and physical conditioning. It also reports negative outcomes of arts interventions that may be underreported. The study identifies the need for core outcomes sets and reporting guidelines for advancing evidence synthesis in this area.

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“…Migration scholars have also focused on shifts in gendered power relations, often in complex and contradictory ways (Boehm 2008; Hondagneu‐Sotelo 1992; Parrado, Flippen and McQuisten 2005; Radel et al 2010). Scholarship on care work (Constable 2014; Devault 1999; Englund 2005; Garza, 2019) combined with research on immigrant workers (Holmes 2013; Hondagneu‐Sotelo 1992; Mares et al 1992) illustrates the importance of accounting for intersecting identities and structural violence in immigrant experiences with labor and food systems. Research on new immigrant destination communities highlights how relationships to place, race, gender, and labor are renegotiated and redefined (Keller 2019; Schmalzbauer 2014; Stuesse 2016).…”

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Mothers’ Milk: How Gender and Immigration Obscure Agricultural Expertise and Care Work in Dairyland

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2020

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Gender is a key lens through which to understand industrial agricultural production in rural twenty‐first century communities. Here, I examine the gendered imaginaries of dairy production that perpetuate the meaning of “farmer” as masculine and white. The expertise of Mexican immigrant workers, and particularly that of women on spousal visas, challenges such assumptions and highlights the role of unremunerated labor in sustaining the industrial food chain. Everyday experiences of gender and race are shaped not only by local‐level assumptions but also by federal‐level immigration policies and employer recruitment practices that result in a mostly male immigrant agricultural workforce. In this article, I draw on interviews with rural Minnesota community members, as well as local and regional news coverage, to examine how gender and race intersect to marginalize the work and expertise of Mexican immigrants in the rural Midwest. In this case, Mexican immigrant mothers frame their labor as part of a complex calculus of immigration benefits and sacrifices.

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“…In this manuscript, we employ the concept of structural vulnerability to frame our understanding of the well-being of Latina farmworkers. Structural vulnerability asserts that existing social hierarchies shape the degree to which an individual is vulnerable within a community (or society), and calls attention to the political and social contexts within which people labor [ 27 ]. The factors noted above, which may influence well-being among Latina farmworkers, are an outcome of structural vulnerability, and stem from inequalities based on gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and space and place.…”

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Understanding Challenges to Well-Being among Latina FarmWorkers in Rural Idaho Using in an Interdisciplinary, Mixed-Methods Approach

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2020

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The aim of this study was to identify social, cultural and workplace-related risk factors affecting well-being among Latina farmworkers in rural Idaho. We recruited 70 Latina farmworkers from southwestern Idaho in 2019. We employed an inter-disciplinary, mixed-methods approach—including surveys, focus groups, interviews, and pesticide biomonitoring—to characterize multiple domains that influence well-being, including food security and access, housing conditions, social supports, access to medical care, and workplace safety. Six major themes emerged as primary challenges to Latina farmworkers’ well-being. In the public sphere, study participants identified these challenges as long working hours, concerns regarding pesticide exposure, and lack of enforcement of regulatory protections. Participants’ concerns regarding pesticide exposure were underscored by biological sampling results; multiple biomarkers of pesticide exposure were detected in all samples, with the highest concentrations measured in samples collected from women who reported mixing, loading or applying pesticides. Within the private sphere, food security and provisioning, childcare responsibilities, and social isolation were identified as significant challenges to well-being. Gender, ethnicity, and geography emerged as important, intersecting statuses that shaped the life experiences of these agricultural workers. Our findings suggest that gender may play a particularly critical role in the unique challenges facing Latina farmworkers. As a result, the services and regulations needed to support well-being in this population may be highly specific, and almost certainly include attention to work–family dynamics, pesticide exposure, and social connections.

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Using chiles and comics to address the physical and emotional wellbeing of farmworkers in Vermont’s borderlands

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Engaging the Arts for Wellbeing in the United States of America: A Scoping Review

Engaging the Arts for Wellbeing in the United States of America: A Scoping Review

Mothers’ Milk: How Gender and Immigration Obscure Agricultural Expertise and Care Work in Dairyland

Understanding Challenges to Well-Being among Latina FarmWorkers in Rural Idaho Using in an Interdisciplinary, Mixed-Methods Approach

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