The Unending Hunger Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "We Had Nothing to Eat": The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity; 2. Caring through Food: "La Lucha Diaria"; 3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of Sufrimiento; 4. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project; 5. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix One; Appendix Two; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how ""food security"" comes to dominate national policy i.
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Central Americans. Food security. Mexicans. Women immigrants. Women immigrants--United States. Mexicans--United States. Central Americans--United States. Food security--United States. Food security--Government policy--United States.