Kathleen Sexsmith
Biographic Data
| ID | 220701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Sexsmith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sexsmith |
| SIGNATURE | SEXSMITH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4243-0562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding the Complex Linkages Between Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence Globally
Many determinants of gender-based violence (GBV) are sensitive to climate change. In this theoretical article, we offer a conceptual framework for analyzing how climate change can shape the incidence of GBV through five mechanisms: human physiology and psychology, economic insecurity and job loss, scarcity of natural resources, changes in migration patterns, and disruption of infrastructure and essential services. We argue that significant empiri…
“Safety goes out the window when something needs done”
Caretaker perceptions of the effects of parental migration on left-behind children in rural Kyrgyzstan
This study examines how caretakers perceive the effects of parental migration on left-behind children in Kyrgyzstan. Drawing from interviews with 33 caretakers in southern Kyrgyzstan, this study examines the "impossible" dilemma of parental labour migration and its effects on the children that are left behind. We find that parental migration is perceived to impact children in five main ways: financial, migration ambitions, educational, behavioura…
Gendered Migration Patterns and Social Change in Rural Kyrgyzstan
This study analyses the relationships between labour migration and community perceptions of gender relations and roles in Kyrgyzstan, the second-most remittance-dependent economy in the world. Based on 591 surveys and 34 qualitative interviews with adult household members in the At-Bashy rayon , we analysed migration decision-making processes as well as community perceptions of women’s migration, women’s labour patterns, and associations between …
Divergent approaches to the ‘family farm’
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras
This research examines the potential of gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) to improve gender equality in agricultural extension programs and food security through experiential learning and participatory methods. Scholars of gender and agriculture have long highlighted the gender gap in access to agricultural resources; to address this issue, development organizations have integrated GTAs into their initiatives. The article presents an empiri…
Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry
U.S. farmers are facing a widespread labor shortage. Previous literature on the causes, mostly written by agricultural economists, has focused on the macro-economic and political factors that have reduced the traditional agricultural labor supply from rural Latin America. In this article, we present a sociological approach that probes the settlement of immigrant farmworkers in rural communities and their associated family responsibilities as poss…
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector
The embodied precarity of year-round agricultural work
Daily Labors
Decoding Worker 'Reliability
This article examines the reasons offered by New York dairy farmers for hiring undocumented immigrant workers in their milking parlors, and connects those discourses to broader economic and cultural change in U.S. agrarian society. Based on interviews with 25 dairy farmers on 22 farms, this article examines farmers' assessments of the Amish, white non-Amish, Puerto Rican, and undocumented Latino labor pool. The analysis shows that farmers conside…
Exit, voice, constrained loyalty, and entrapment
This paper analyzes how undocumented migrant farmworkers on New York dairies respond to workplace grievances. In the absence of meaningful recourse to formal labor protections, undocumented Mexican and Guatemalan farmworkers express their dissatisfaction on a moral terrain. Building on Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” framework, I argue that their responses reveal a gradation of agency, from entrapment on farms with unsupportive employers, …
Formulating the SDGs
Reformulation of the millennium development goals comes at a time when their realization is falling short. ‘Development as usual’ through global goal setting is in question in context of the recent conjunction of global food, energy, and financial crises. Given the evidence of problematic world-scale restructuring, it is puzzling that SDG visioning continues to assign principal responsibility to states for the post-2015 development agenda. We reg…
This land is ours now
Violent conflict and social transformation
Formulating the SDGs
Reformulation of the millennium development goals comes at a time when their realization is falling short. ‘Development as usual’ through global goal setting is in question in context of the recent conjunction of global food, energy, and financial crises. Given the evidence of problematic world-scale restructuring, it is puzzling that SDG visioning continues to assign principal responsibility to states for the post-2015 development agenda. We reg…
Decoding Worker 'Reliability
This article examines the reasons offered by New York dairy farmers for hiring undocumented immigrant workers in their milking parlors, and connects those discourses to broader economic and cultural change in U.S. agrarian society. Based on interviews with 25 dairy farmers on 22 farms, this article examines farmers' assessments of the Amish, white non-Amish, Puerto Rican, and undocumented Latino labor pool. The analysis shows that farmers conside…
The embodied precarity of year-round agricultural work
Exit, voice, constrained loyalty, and entrapment
This paper analyzes how undocumented migrant farmworkers on New York dairies respond to workplace grievances. In the absence of meaningful recourse to formal labor protections, undocumented Mexican and Guatemalan farmworkers express their dissatisfaction on a moral terrain. Building on Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” framework, I argue that their responses reveal a gradation of agency, from entrapment on farms with unsupportive employers, …
Divergent approaches to the ‘family farm’
Violent conflict and social transformation
Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry
U.S. farmers are facing a widespread labor shortage. Previous literature on the causes, mostly written by agricultural economists, has focused on the macro-economic and political factors that have reduced the traditional agricultural labor supply from rural Latin America. In this article, we present a sociological approach that probes the settlement of immigrant farmworkers in rural communities and their associated family responsibilities as poss…
Violent conflict and social transformation
This land is ours now
Formulating the SDGs
Reformulation of the millennium development goals comes at a time when their realization is falling short. ‘Development as usual’ through global goal setting is in question in context of the recent conjunction of global food, energy, and financial crises. Given the evidence of problematic world-scale restructuring, it is puzzling that SDG visioning continues to assign principal responsibility to states for the post-2015 development agenda. We reg…
Exit, voice, constrained loyalty, and entrapment
This paper analyzes how undocumented migrant farmworkers on New York dairies respond to workplace grievances. In the absence of meaningful recourse to formal labor protections, undocumented Mexican and Guatemalan farmworkers express their dissatisfaction on a moral terrain. Building on Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” framework, I argue that their responses reveal a gradation of agency, from entrapment on farms with unsupportive employers, …
Decoding Worker 'Reliability
This article examines the reasons offered by New York dairy farmers for hiring undocumented immigrant workers in their milking parlors, and connects those discourses to broader economic and cultural change in U.S. agrarian society. Based on interviews with 25 dairy farmers on 22 farms, this article examines farmers' assessments of the Amish, white non-Amish, Puerto Rican, and undocumented Latino labor pool. The analysis shows that farmers conside…
The embodied precarity of year-round agricultural work
Daily Labors
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector
Gendered Migration Patterns and Social Change in Rural Kyrgyzstan
This study analyses the relationships between labour migration and community perceptions of gender relations and roles in Kyrgyzstan, the second-most remittance-dependent economy in the world. Based on 591 surveys and 34 qualitative interviews with adult household members in the At-Bashy rayon , we analysed migration decision-making processes as well as community perceptions of women’s migration, women’s labour patterns, and associations between …
Divergent approaches to the ‘family farm’
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras
This research examines the potential of gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) to improve gender equality in agricultural extension programs and food security through experiential learning and participatory methods. Scholars of gender and agriculture have long highlighted the gender gap in access to agricultural resources; to address this issue, development organizations have integrated GTAs into their initiatives. The article presents an empiri…
Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry
U.S. farmers are facing a widespread labor shortage. Previous literature on the causes, mostly written by agricultural economists, has focused on the macro-economic and political factors that have reduced the traditional agricultural labor supply from rural Latin America. In this article, we present a sociological approach that probes the settlement of immigrant farmworkers in rural communities and their associated family responsibilities as poss…
Caretaker perceptions of the effects of parental migration on left-behind children in rural Kyrgyzstan
This study examines how caretakers perceive the effects of parental migration on left-behind children in Kyrgyzstan. Drawing from interviews with 33 caretakers in southern Kyrgyzstan, this study examines the "impossible" dilemma of parental labour migration and its effects on the children that are left behind. We find that parental migration is perceived to impact children in five main ways: financial, migration ambitions, educational, behavioura…
Understanding the Complex Linkages Between Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence Globally
Many determinants of gender-based violence (GBV) are sensitive to climate change. In this theoretical article, we offer a conceptual framework for analyzing how climate change can shape the incidence of GBV through five mechanisms: human physiology and psychology, economic insecurity and job loss, scarcity of natural resources, changes in migration patterns, and disruption of infrastructure and essential services. We argue that significant empiri…
“Safety goes out the window when something needs done”
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