In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive
pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In …

Immigration scholars have increasingly questioned the idea that “illegality” is a fixed,
inherent condition. Instead, the new consensus is that immigration laws produce “illegality.” …

Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method, Second Edition is a
concise, innovative text designed for Research Methods courses in the Social Sciences. The …

The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every
aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established …

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United
States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their …

How has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these
newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? Scratching Out a Living …

This article analyzes patterns in Latino immigrant racialization in the US South. Drawing on
a unique dataset of more than 4,200 news stories from the region, we find that Latino …

References Page 1 References AAI (Agribusiness Accountability Initiative). nd “Corporate
Power in Livestock Production: How It’s Hurting Farmers, Consumers, and Communities—and …

Respectability politics—that is, the process by which privileged members of marginalized
groups comply with dominant social norms to advance their group's condition—is the object …

Under COVID-19, low-wage service sector workers found themselves as essential workers
vulnerable to intensified precarity. Based on in-depth interviews with a sample of 52 low …