Bad Lungs/Bad Air
Childhood Asthma and Ecosyndemics among Mexican Immigrant Farmworkers of California’s San Joaquin Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005001 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Alysse Von Glascoe (0000-0002-4305-4530, corresponding author), Norah Anita Schwartz (0000-0002-8313-5992) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 110-121 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Society for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0018-7259.78.2.110 |
| OpenAlex | W2944898396 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 57 |
California's San Joaquin Valley, one of the most highly productive—and contaminated—agricultural regions in the world, is beset by some of the nation's worst air quality and high rates of childhood asthma. Children of Mexican-origin farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley have exceptionally high rates of asthma compared with children of Mexican descent in both the United States and Mexico. We suggest that public health paradigms, which posit that Mexican-American children are at relatively low risk of developing childhood asthma, do not apply to the population of children of Mexican immigrant farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley. Combining ethnographic and photovoice methods, we demonstrate how industrial farming conditions systematically expose children of farmworkers to environmental insults over which they have little or no control, including pesticide exposure, bovine contamination, agricultural field burning, and substandard housing, all of which contribute to high prevalence of asthma among children. We argue that the application of structural vulnerability, structural violence, and ecosyndemic frameworks can be used to better explicate complex environmental injustices that might otherwise be overlooked by more reductionistic theories
Agriculture · Archaeology · Asthma · Environmental health · Geography · Immigration · Public health · San Joaquin · Vulnerability (computing) · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Energy and Environment Impacts · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Medicine
Non-communicable disease syndemics
Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health
Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
Whatever happened to qualitative description?
Hispanic health in the USA
Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health
Theories for social epidemiology in the 21st century
Photovoice
Cumulative Environmental Vulnerability and Environmental Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley
Revisiting the Hispanic Health Paradox
Where they (live, work and) spray”
Neighborhood context and the Hispanic health paradox
Geographies of race and ethnicity II
The health politics of asthma
Environmental Inequality Formation
Syndemics and Public Health
"Troubling "Environments
Childhood Asthma, Air Quality, and Social Suffering Among Mexican Americans in California's San Joaquin Valley
Strawberry Fields as Extreme Environments
Immigrant Dreams
Structural Vulnerability and Hierarchies of Ethnicity and Citizenship on the Farm
Structural Vulnerability and Health
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |