Angela Stuesse's research while affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other places

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Undocumented activism is on the rise. In response to the expansion of immigrant policing, detention, and deportation, immigrant rights organisers have increasingly deployed a longstanding approach to anti‐deportation activism called “deportation defense campaigns” (DDCs). DDCs seek to disrupt the deportation regime by preventing or delaying individ...
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“When they're done with you,” an impassioned union representative once cautioned me, “they'll crumple you up like a piece of paper, throw you out, and reach back for your kids.” Industrial poultry production is horrific work, reliant upon the expendable bodies of Black and Brown workers, many of whom are immigrants. While anthropologists have incre...
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This dialogue serves as a forum for four authors of recent books on food politics to discuss their different approaches to analyzing immigrant workers' contested and changing roles in the U.S. food system. Bridging disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and political science—and sites in the food industry ranging from poultry processing plant...
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The foreign-born population in the United States has reached new heights, and experts predict that the country will be “majority minority” by 2042, possibly earlier. Despite its growing ethnic, racial, national, and other forms of diversity, the fundamental location of Blackness at the bottom of the pyramid of structural racism endures. In attempts...

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... Vaikka kirkot ovat vedonneet esimerkiksi lainsäätäjiin inhimillisemmän turvapaikkapolitiikan puolesta, suurin osa uutisoinnista ja mahdollisesti myös kirkkojen käytännön vaikuttamisesta kohdistuu yksittäisten maasta poistettavien tilanteiden muuttamiseksi paremmaksi. Toisaalta erilaisten protestien tarkka rajaaminen ja luokittelu ei välttämättä ole mielekästäkään (Kocher & Stuesse, 2021). Maastapoistamisia tutkinut Eveliina Lyytinen (2021:10) tuo myös esille, että yksittäistilanteeseen kohdistunut protesti voi muuntua laajemmaksi, reformatiiviseksi protestiksi. ...
... This model has led to significant improvements in worker health over the past 50 years [5]. Nevertheless, persistent inequities in the burden of occupational injuries and illnesses, as well as challenges associated with the fundamental reorganization of the world of work [6], highlight the need to expand the current paradigm to account for the social contexts within which occupational injuries and illnesses occur [7][8][9]. Consideration of the role that social institutions and norms play in the inequitable distribution of work-related risks and benefits across society, and resultant issues of health equity, are central to this shift in OSH from a biomedical to a biopsychosocial approach [4]. A biopsychosocial approach takes a more holistic view by exploring the dynamic, multidirectional interactions between biological phenomena, psychological factors, and social relationships and contexts, which constitute processes of human development over the life course. ...
... For male, foreign-born Latinos, common causes of work-related injuries include contact with hazardous objects and equipment, such as being struck by an object or caught in machinery; for women, causes of injury include bodily strain and overexertion caused by lifting, slipping, pushing, or repetitive motion ). For example, Latino workers employed in poultry processing have a high prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome due to the repetitive and strenuous nature of the tasks and, in some cases, even experience amputations (Cartwright et al. 2012;Stuesse 2018). Latino building cleaners commonly encounter chemical hazards due to their exposure to cleaning agents such as acids and solvents and suffer from musculoskeletal problems arising from awkward postures and the use of ergonomically inadequate equipment (Eggerth et al. 2019). ...