Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.
Med Anthropol. 2011 Jul;30(4):386-408. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2011.576904.
California urban and agricultural centers rely heavily on Latino migrant laborers, regardless of their legal documented status. In the delivery of social services, and in the mass media, popular consciousness, and formal legal understandings and arrangements, Latino laborers are viewed as either legitimate voluntary low-wage workers or illegitimate undocumented workers not entitled to the same civil rights as US citizens. Their de facto second-class status becomes a central component of their social identity, with the structural conditions of their lives internalized, resulting in limited agency and poor social and health outcomes. The lived experience of structural vulnerability prefigures the actions and efforts of undocumented Latino contingent workers. In this article, the capacity for Latino laborers to maneuver and negotiate the travails of everyday life is explored.
加利福尼亚州的城市和农业中心严重依赖拉丁裔移民劳工，而不论其法律身份是否合法。在提供社会服务、大众媒体、流行意识以及正式的法律理解和安排中，拉丁裔劳工要么被视为合法的自愿低薪工人，要么被视为不享有与美国公民同等公民权利的非法无证工人。他们事实上的二等公民地位成为他们社会身份的核心组成部分，他们的生活结构条件被内化，导致他们的代理能力有限，社会和健康状况不佳。结构脆弱性的生活体验预示着无证拉丁裔临时工的行动和努力。在本文中，探讨了拉丁裔劳工应对日常生活艰辛的能力。
