Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities by Alisa Garni overstock Through these examples

Through these examples

themselves living with long-term illness

hoping to heal her lingering emotional wounds somewhere out of the spotlight

and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge

Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities by Alisa Garni overstock Through these examplesBased 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