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Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities

Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities

Garni, Alisa

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General SociologyImmigration & RefugeesLatino Studies

ISBN10: 0700640894
ISBN13: 9780700640898
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Based 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 80 percent of the country's milk. Whereas most food production in the United States today is controlled by large corporations, at least 97 percent of US dairy farms are family owned and operated. Based on five years of ethnographic research in Dairy City, Kansas, Alisa Garni tells the story of people who traded suits and office jobs abroad for dangerous work on US dairy farms, the white dairy farmers who rely on them to keep their family-owned operations afloat, and the rural communities that were dying before recent immigrants arrived.

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